This Sunday: We're Opening Magnums of Chateau Batailley 2009

Every Sunday, working with the redoubtable Tuggy Meyer of Huntsworth Wines opposite the pub, we open a big bottle or two of well-aged wine and sell it by the glass and carafe. This Sunday's offering is magnums of 2009 Chateau Batailley. We opened a few magnums of this last Sunday and they went in a heart-beat!

Awarded a 94 from Parker, this is a much-loved name in W.8. Brace yourself for a lyrical note from Farr way back in 2012: "The finest Batailley I have had in many years, the dense purple-coloured 2009 exhibits a boatload of tannin as well as sweet, caramelized, black currant fruit intermixed with hints of charcoal, cedarwood and smoke, a full-bodied mouthfeel and the aforementioned high, but sweet, well-integrated tannin displaying no jaggedness. Batailley often requires considerable patience as it can be one of the longest-lived Pauillacs. Atypically for Batailley, the 2009 should be ready to drink in 5-7 years and keep for three decades."

So fully mature now - no need for said 'patience'. And here at the Stoops we are always up for a boatload anything, but especially tannin!

Glass (125ml) £25

Carafe (500ml) £95

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Allsopp's fine, hand-pulled, naturally fermented ales available from £5.50/pint at all times. Of course.

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Previous Stoops Sunday Large Format Bottles:

27/10/24 Ch Batailley '09

20/10/24 Ch Sociando-Mallet '06

13/10/24 Ch LaTour Carnet '09

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"If Britain mourn her bleakness, we can tell her,
The very best of vineyards is the cellar."

Lord Byron