Chateau Haut Batailley Vintage 2000 VINTAGE WINES 1996

Chateau Haut Batailley Vintage 2000 VINTAGE WINES 1996Batailley was bought in 1932 by the brothers Franois and Marcel Borie, who divided it in two in 1942 to avoid conflict in inheritance. Franois took the smaller property that did not include the physical chteau and named the estate Haut Batailley. He increased the size of the estate by buying vineyards, including purchases of plots in 1951 from the Fourth Growth Chateau Duhart Milon. The weather gods smiled on the wine world helping the millennium

This wine is the result of a very strict selection

Based in Calistoga

Sassicaia was the brainchild of Marchesi Incisa in the 1940's with the 1968 vintage being the first commercial release

He left the property to a Monsieur de Larose in 1771

There are two neighbouring properties with the same name

When Prohibition was repealed in 1933 winemaking resumed

Veeder is expressed nicely in this wine

most preferring 1966

2012 was renowned as a spectacular growing season for the Napa Valley

carrying cigar

wine level 4cm from base of cork

I can’t recall ever having this particular vintage of Mouton before