WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 876; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2012 which is 867. The average score for Château Batailley is 872, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Batailley they use words like Fruit, Black, Tannins, Ripe, Full, Cassis, Long, Tannin, Dark, Currant, Plum, Sweet, Acidity, Cedar, Purple. The 2012 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2012 but no other wine from Château Batailley: Satisfying, Model, Blackish, Meat, Extract, Voluptuous, Bold, Precocious. The wine has roughly a similar level of alcohol for the producer (12.5% vs 12.83%); it has significantly lower levels of alcohol for the region in 2012 (12.5% vs 12.92%). The wine is ready to drink now (2016) and should be consumed within the next 10 years (by 2026). It normally takes wines from Château Batailley around 6 years to be ready to start drinking, and 12 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Les Forts de Latour 2005, Château Margaux 2006, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Cheval Blanc 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Les Ormes-de-Pez 2009, Château Poujeaux 2005, Château Gloria 2011.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very high value for money, beating 80% of other wines when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
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Prices & Deals for Château Batailley 2012
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-07-12 |
gbp |
23 |