Chateau Haut-Batailley Verso Pauillac 2018 Lanson Rose Champagne seafood and chocolate

seafood and chocolate

and single-parcel

the Maritima estate captures the salt-scrubbed essence of the coast in a bottle of California Chardonnay

dried fruit

and a savory granite grip running underneath

Chateau Haut-Batailley Verso Pauillac 2018 Lanson Rose Champagne seafood and chocolateVerso 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