“Tasted at the Château Batailley dinner at The Square, the 1959 Batailley embodies all that is great about mature Pauillac. The nose is just so expressive, unfurling with aeration, offering mulberry, briary, thyme and a touch of cooked Italian meats (Mortadella...later proscuitto). This has wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, quite tensile on the entry, the acidity lending the 1959 vigor and vivacity. It has vestiges of wild red-berried fruit, cedar and sandalwood and is very focused, almost "economical" on the piquant finish, as if this wine had already impressed you enough and there is no need to overdo it. That would be showing off. This is a superb 1959 Bordeaux. Tasted January 2010.”
— Neal Martin, Jun 2017