Batailley
Batailley
AboutBatailley
Château Batailley is one of Pauillac’s older estates, with vines documented on the property from the seventeenth century. Daniel Guestier acquired it in 1816, expanded the vineyard and modernized the estate; in 1855 it was ranked a Fifth Growth in the Médoc classification.
The Borie brothers bought Batailley in 1924 and divided it in 1941, creating the separate Château Haut-Batailley while Marcel Borie retained the original estate. Through Denise Borie and Emile Castéja, Batailley passed into the Castéja family in 1961. Philippe Castéja succeeded his father in the 2000s and continues the family stewardship.
A renovated vat room introduced parcel-by-parcel vinification in 2006. Lions de Batailley followed in 2015 as the château’s second wine, with a third Pauillac bottling added in 2019.
Château Batailley 2016 Lions de Batailley Pauillac
French Red
Cabernet Sauvignon forms 61 percent of the blend, joined by 31 percent Merlot and 8 percent Cabernet Franc. The wine has balanced, silky tannins, acidity and length. Fruit comes mainly from young vines on gravel and silica soils. Fermentation lasts fifteen days with pumpovers, followed by eighteen months in French oak barriques, divided between one-year-old barrels and forty percent new oak.