Chateau Haut-Batailley Verso Pauillac 2018 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider and Gewurtztraminer

and Gewurtztraminer

One of Côte-Rôtie's most celebrated vineyard sites—and the most powerful wine in the Rostaing stable

Try it in a white negroni

Finishes with lingering meringue

Chateau Haut-Batailley Verso Pauillac 2018 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider and GewurtztraminerVerso is the new second wine of Chateau Haut Batailley, launched with the 2017 vintage after the Cazes family of Lynch Bages took over the estate in 2017. The Cazes team has nearly doubled the planted vineyard area, replanting Pauillac land that had sat fallow since phylloxera. Verso is the declassification vehicle for younger vines and parcels not destined for the grand vin, but it carries the same fingerprint: dark fruit, graphite, the firm spine