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
Allsopp's fine, hand-pulled, naturally fermented ales available from £5.50/pint at all times. Of course.
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
"If Britain mourn her bleakness, we can tell her,
The very best of vineyards is the cellar."
Lord Byron