Chateau Batailley Pauillac 2005 Jura and Savoie and tense fruit make this

and tense fruit make this Zinfandel an extremely crushable rendition of the grape

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Chateau Batailley Pauillac 2005 Jura and Savoie and tense fruit make thisTwenty plus years on, the 2005 Batailley is sitting squarely in its sweet spot. The Castja owned Pauillac Fifth Growth has long been the quiet, classical Pauillac in the family dependable, structured, never flashy and 2005 was one of the great Left Bank vintages of the decade, with the density and tannic spine to reward this kind of patience. Two decades have softened the wine into cedar, tobacco, and dried cassis territory while the core of Pauillac