Château Léoville Barton
Château Léoville Barton
Château Léoville Barton is a Saint-Julien estate, one of just fifteen Deuxièmes Crus (Second Growths) in the original 1855 Classification. Along with Château Léoville-Las Cases and Château Léoville-Poyferré, Léoville Barton was once part of the vast Léoville estate. The estate we now know at Léoville Barton was purchased by Hugh Barton in 1826. It is still owned by the Barton family, who were originally an Irish descent. The current owner Anthony Barton began running the estate in 1983, along with its sister property Château Langoa Barton.
Certainly no dinosaur, the Bartons simply uphold certain principles which transformed Bordeaux into the world’s most important fine wine region whilst embracing advances to improve the quality of their already exceptional wines. Rarely green-harvesting and sticking firmly to a classical St-Julien profile of marrying elegance with power, Anthony Barton’s daughter Mélanie describes the property’s philosophy as “never to over-complicate things”.
Viniculture
Planted to 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc, the 51 hectares which constitute Léoville Barton are situated on peyrosols and clay-gravel soils in the increasingly sought-after commune of St-Julien. It was perhaps the Château’s inconsistency in decades gone by that hindered its rise to the forefront of the Bordeaux fine wine scene, but these issues have evaporated after Anthony Barton’s leadership and vintage-after-vintage this historic label is one of the best wines in its class.
Many people don’t know that Léoville Barton actually doesn’t have its own château, and the beautiful façade depicted on its label is actually that of Château Langoa Barton! Léoville Barton's 116 acres (47 ha) of vineyards are located in the central part of the appellation along the Gironde river. The soil composition is mostly gravel with a subsoil of clay. The plantings are 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and 8% Cabernet Franc.
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Bordeaux | 1 | 89 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$974.42 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (89)The 2009 Réserve de Léoville-Barton is quite herbaceous and earthy on the nose gradually opening up with attractive iron filing and cedar scents. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, taut and fresh with a pastille like finish that just needs to evolve more complexity and personality. Give it another couple of years. A very decent second wine this year. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners’ 2009 Bordeaux tasting. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 90 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$163.04 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (90)The 2010 Réserve de Léoville Barton offers loam-infused black fruit on the nose, touches of smoke and tobacco emerging with time, overtly classic in style. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins that frame the bright red and black fruit. Very harmonious with quite a persistent minty finish, it is not terribly complex but is charming and conveys an effortless quality. Recommended. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners 10-Year On Bordeaux horizontal. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | - |
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SG$669.22 |
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Bordeaux | 58 | 90 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$663.59 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (90)The 2019 La Réserve de Léoville Barton offers a mixture of red and black fruit, quite perfumed and floral, with crushed violet. The palate is well balanced, very supple, pure and elegant, leading to a delineated finish. This is lovely in an old-school way and will only need a couple of years in bottle. |
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Bordeaux | 5 | 90 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$676.67 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (90)The 2019 La Réserve de Léoville Barton offers a mixture of red and black fruit, quite perfumed and floral, with crushed violet. The palate is well balanced, very supple, pure and elegant, leading to a delineated finish. This is lovely in an old-school way and will only need a couple of years in bottle. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | 89 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$533.45 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (89)The 2020 La Réserve de Léoville Barton has a crisp blackberry, tobacco and slight minty bouquet with impressive harmony. The palate is medium-bodied with finely-chiseled tannins, not deep or concentrated, yet showing much more precision than the La Réserves that I used to taste a decade ago. Classy. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 89 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$921.92 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (89)The 2020 La Réserve de Léoville Barton has a crisp blackberry, tobacco and slight minty bouquet with impressive harmony. The palate is medium-bodied with finely-chiseled tannins, not deep or concentrated, yet showing much more precision than the La Réserves that I used to taste a decade ago. Classy. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 91+ (VN (ST)) |
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SG$5,514.31 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (91+)Red-ruby. Highly aromatic nose of raspberry, redcurrant, graphite, licorice and cedar. Leanish, dry and classic, with firm acidity but less flesh than the '96. Lovely traditionally made claret, with terrific finesse and grip. Still evolving. (A second bottle showed a somewhat leathery nose and came across as drier in the middle palate; it was not quite as fresh as the better sample.) Drink now through 2020. |
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Bordeaux | 23 | 91+ (VN (ST)) |
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SG$476.60 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (91+)Red-ruby. Highly aromatic nose of raspberry, redcurrant, graphite, licorice and cedar. Leanish, dry and classic, with firm acidity but less flesh than the '96. Lovely traditionally made claret, with terrific finesse and grip. Still evolving. (A second bottle showed a somewhat leathery nose and came across as drier in the middle palate; it was not quite as fresh as the better sample.) Drink now through 2020. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | - |
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SG$312.72 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 93.0 |
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SG$2,865.61 |
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A restrained, elegant style of Bordeaux for those who enjoy older claret to be a bit leaner and more austere. Definitely a food wine and one which has finally arrived in its drinking window after a long journey through dormancy.
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Bordeaux | 5 | - |
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SG$141.97 |
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Bordeaux | 3 | 93 (WA) |
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SG$2,663.96 |
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Wine Advocate (93)The 1996 Leoville Barton appears more youthful than the 1996 Langoa Barton in the glass with a healthy deep garnet core. The aromatics unfurl gracefully in the glass revealing briary, wild hedgerow, black truffle and sandalwood scents -- firmly in secondary aroma stage but with appreciable presence and intensity. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannin that form its firm and classic structure, spice, white pepper and cloves infusing the slightly animally red berry fruit. This is an adorable Léoville Barton that is occupying a very happy place at the moment -- superb precision, old school claret at its best. Decant for an hour no more, then enjoy. Tasted July 2016. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 90 (VN (ST)) |
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SG$1,454.06 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (90)Deep ruby-red. Black cherry, blackcurrant and graphite on the nose. Fresh and intensely flavored; dense and thick for the vintage but with an essential gentleness. Finishes fresh and long, with tannins covered by fruit. Excellent for the vintage. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 94 (WS) |
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SG$1,761.44 |
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Wine Spectator (94)Lovely aromas to this, with currants and raspberries galore. Full- to medium-bodied, with a good core of fruit in the midpalate, fine tannins and a medium finish. Scores finesse and class for the Médoc in '98. Score range: 90-94 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98.3 |
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SG$2,663.96 |
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Pressing every advantage afforded by the conditions of 2000, Léoville Barton produced an exceptionally long-lived and aristocratic wine, only just beginning to approach its recommended drinking window – this is classical Bordeaux after all! “This is a behemoth” in the words of Parker, who found that even in 2010 with a decade of age the St-Julien was a “broodingly backward” wine which “makes a mockery of many modern-day consumers wanting a wine for immediate gratification”. A further decade on and this Léoville Barton is finally beginning to unfurl its immense majesty to reveal its classic notes of cassis, cedarwood and dark fruits with impeccably constructed tannins. Parker ends his note, accompanied by a score of 95+ points, with the advice that “those who bought it should continue to exercise patience and be proud to own a wonderful classic with five decades of longevity ahead of it”.
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Bordeaux | 22 | 98.3 |
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SG$139.66 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98.3 |
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SG$209.55 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98 (JS) |
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SG$2,184.36 |
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James Suckling (98)This has intense aromas of souis bois, mushroom, flowers, spices and ripe berry tart. Full and very rich, with layers of round tannins and intense flavors. This is opulent and wild. So good for a baby but wait until 2017. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 94 (WE) |
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SG$2,254.08 |
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Wine Enthusiast (94)93-95 There are huge new wood aromas, and these follow through to the flavors. But there are also black currants and fresh acidity. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98.3 |
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SG$2,346.73 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98.3 |
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SG$1,481.31 |
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Bordeaux | 4 | 95.0 |
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SG$1,349.38 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 96 (WE) |
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SG$1,392.98 |
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Wine Enthusiast (96)95-97 Barrel sample. New wood aromas, follow with solid, dark fruits. This is a powerful wine, which shows elegance and structure together and in balance. A beautiful wine for long-term aging. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98 (JA) |
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SG$2,085.13 |
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Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux (98)Still young and brooding, this is pure St Julien, pure Barton loveliness. Great quality, juicy, balanced, crayon and cassis, we are right in the heart of the appellation here, but with the intensity and concentration turned up to full. 60% new oak for ageing. |
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Bordeaux | 3 | 98 (WE) |
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SG$2,195.26 |
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Wine Enthusiast (98)97-99 A big, solid, wood powered wine. The power is all there, new wood offering an immense structure, while the acidity gives the necessary freshness. A solid wine, very concentrated, with an immensely long future. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 93 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$1,218.58 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (93)The 2011 Léoville-Barton has an endearing nose with well-defined red berry fruit, cedar, pencil box and light sous-bois aromas that unfold with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, fine depth and precision, well-integrated oak and a tensile, quite saline finish that is elegant and persistent. This is a beautiful 2017 that should age with style. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 93 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$149.96 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (93)The 2011 Léoville-Barton has an endearing nose with well-defined red berry fruit, cedar, pencil box and light sous-bois aromas that unfold with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, fine depth and precision, well-integrated oak and a tensile, quite saline finish that is elegant and persistent. This is a beautiful 2017 that should age with style. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | 95 (WE) |
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SG$1,278.53 |
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Wine Enthusiast (95)Firmly tannic in character, this wine is dry and extracted. There's potential for this powerful, impressive wine to bear the wine's very dry character with the weight of its fruit. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 90 (WA) |
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SG$1,196.78 |
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Wine Advocate (90)The 2013 Léoville-Barton has a more backward bouquet compared to the Langoa-Barton 2013, but there is more perfume here with blackberry, a touch of sea spray and cold limestone. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe tannin, a crisp line of acidity with finesse and elegance on the finish, which is one of the best you'll find in Saint Julien. This finishes with a flourish after a conservative opening and it should yield a decade of pleasure, maybe more. This is a solid showing in a tough vintage. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 89 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$791.00 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (89)The 2009 Réserve de Léoville-Barton is quite herbaceous and earthy on the nose gradually opening up with attractive iron filing and cedar scents. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, taut and fresh with a pastille like finish that just needs to evolve more complexity and personality. Give it another couple of years. A very decent second wine this year. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners’ 2009 Bordeaux tasting. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 90 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$141.00 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (90)The 2010 Réserve de Léoville Barton offers loam-infused black fruit on the nose, touches of smoke and tobacco emerging with time, overtly classic in style. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins that frame the bright red and black fruit. Very harmonious with quite a persistent minty finish, it is not terribly complex but is charming and conveys an effortless quality. Recommended. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners 10-Year On Bordeaux horizontal. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | - |
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SG$511.00 |
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Bordeaux | 58 | 90 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$490.00 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (90)The 2019 La Réserve de Léoville Barton offers a mixture of red and black fruit, quite perfumed and floral, with crushed violet. The palate is well balanced, very supple, pure and elegant, leading to a delineated finish. This is lovely in an old-school way and will only need a couple of years in bottle. |
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Bordeaux | 5 | 90 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$502.00 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (90)The 2019 La Réserve de Léoville Barton offers a mixture of red and black fruit, quite perfumed and floral, with crushed violet. The palate is well balanced, very supple, pure and elegant, leading to a delineated finish. This is lovely in an old-school way and will only need a couple of years in bottle. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | 89 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$430.00 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (89)The 2020 La Réserve de Léoville Barton has a crisp blackberry, tobacco and slight minty bouquet with impressive harmony. The palate is medium-bodied with finely-chiseled tannins, not deep or concentrated, yet showing much more precision than the La Réserves that I used to taste a decade ago. Classy. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 89 (VN (NM)) |
In Bond
SG$727.00 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (89)The 2020 La Réserve de Léoville Barton has a crisp blackberry, tobacco and slight minty bouquet with impressive harmony. The palate is medium-bodied with finely-chiseled tannins, not deep or concentrated, yet showing much more precision than the La Réserves that I used to taste a decade ago. Classy. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 91+ (VN (ST)) |
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SG$4,960.00 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (91+)Red-ruby. Highly aromatic nose of raspberry, redcurrant, graphite, licorice and cedar. Leanish, dry and classic, with firm acidity but less flesh than the '96. Lovely traditionally made claret, with terrific finesse and grip. Still evolving. (A second bottle showed a somewhat leathery nose and came across as drier in the middle palate; it was not quite as fresh as the better sample.) Drink now through 2020. |
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Bordeaux | 23 | 91+ (VN (ST)) |
In Bond
SG$429.00 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (91+)Red-ruby. Highly aromatic nose of raspberry, redcurrant, graphite, licorice and cedar. Leanish, dry and classic, with firm acidity but less flesh than the '96. Lovely traditionally made claret, with terrific finesse and grip. Still evolving. (A second bottle showed a somewhat leathery nose and came across as drier in the middle palate; it was not quite as fresh as the better sample.) Drink now through 2020. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | - |
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SG$277.00 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 93.0 |
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SG$2,530.00 |
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A restrained, elegant style of Bordeaux for those who enjoy older claret to be a bit leaner and more austere. Definitely a food wine and one which has finally arrived in its drinking window after a long journey through dormancy.
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Bordeaux | 5 | - |
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SG$122.00 |
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Bordeaux | 3 | 93 (WA) |
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SG$2,345.00 |
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Wine Advocate (93)The 1996 Leoville Barton appears more youthful than the 1996 Langoa Barton in the glass with a healthy deep garnet core. The aromatics unfurl gracefully in the glass revealing briary, wild hedgerow, black truffle and sandalwood scents -- firmly in secondary aroma stage but with appreciable presence and intensity. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannin that form its firm and classic structure, spice, white pepper and cloves infusing the slightly animally red berry fruit. This is an adorable Léoville Barton that is occupying a very happy place at the moment -- superb precision, old school claret at its best. Decant for an hour no more, then enjoy. Tasted July 2016. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 90 (VN (ST)) |
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SG$1,235.00 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (90)Deep ruby-red. Black cherry, blackcurrant and graphite on the nose. Fresh and intensely flavored; dense and thick for the vintage but with an essential gentleness. Finishes fresh and long, with tannins covered by fruit. Excellent for the vintage. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 94 (WS) |
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SG$1,550.00 |
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Wine Spectator (94)Lovely aromas to this, with currants and raspberries galore. Full- to medium-bodied, with a good core of fruit in the midpalate, fine tannins and a medium finish. Scores finesse and class for the Médoc in '98. Score range: 90-94 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98.3 |
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SG$2,345.00 |
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Pressing every advantage afforded by the conditions of 2000, Léoville Barton produced an exceptionally long-lived and aristocratic wine, only just beginning to approach its recommended drinking window – this is classical Bordeaux after all! “This is a behemoth” in the words of Parker, who found that even in 2010 with a decade of age the St-Julien was a “broodingly backward” wine which “makes a mockery of many modern-day consumers wanting a wine for immediate gratification”. A further decade on and this Léoville Barton is finally beginning to unfurl its immense majesty to reveal its classic notes of cassis, cedarwood and dark fruits with impeccably constructed tannins. Parker ends his note, accompanied by a score of 95+ points, with the advice that “those who bought it should continue to exercise patience and be proud to own a wonderful classic with five decades of longevity ahead of it”.
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Bordeaux | 22 | 98.3 |
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SG$124.00 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98.3 |
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SG$184.00 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98 (JS) |
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SG$1,905.00 |
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James Suckling (98)This has intense aromas of souis bois, mushroom, flowers, spices and ripe berry tart. Full and very rich, with layers of round tannins and intense flavors. This is opulent and wild. So good for a baby but wait until 2017. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 94 (WE) |
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SG$1,965.00 |
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Wine Enthusiast (94)93-95 There are huge new wood aromas, and these follow through to the flavors. But there are also black currants and fresh acidity. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98.3 |
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SG$2,050.00 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98.3 |
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SG$1,260.00 |
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Bordeaux | 4 | 95.0 |
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SG$1,135.00 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 96 (WE) |
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SG$1,175.00 |
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Wine Enthusiast (96)95-97 Barrel sample. New wood aromas, follow with solid, dark fruits. This is a powerful wine, which shows elegance and structure together and in balance. A beautiful wine for long-term aging. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 98 (JA) |
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SG$1,810.00 |
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Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux (98)Still young and brooding, this is pure St Julien, pure Barton loveliness. Great quality, juicy, balanced, crayon and cassis, we are right in the heart of the appellation here, but with the intensity and concentration turned up to full. 60% new oak for ageing. |
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Bordeaux | 3 | 98 (WE) |
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SG$1,915.00 |
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Wine Enthusiast (98)97-99 A big, solid, wood powered wine. The power is all there, new wood offering an immense structure, while the acidity gives the necessary freshness. A solid wine, very concentrated, with an immensely long future. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 93 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$1,015.00 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (93)The 2011 Léoville-Barton has an endearing nose with well-defined red berry fruit, cedar, pencil box and light sous-bois aromas that unfold with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, fine depth and precision, well-integrated oak and a tensile, quite saline finish that is elegant and persistent. This is a beautiful 2017 that should age with style. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 93 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$129.00 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (93)The 2011 Léoville-Barton has an endearing nose with well-defined red berry fruit, cedar, pencil box and light sous-bois aromas that unfold with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, fine depth and precision, well-integrated oak and a tensile, quite saline finish that is elegant and persistent. This is a beautiful 2017 that should age with style. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting. |
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Bordeaux | 2 | 95 (WE) |
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SG$1,070.00 |
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Wine Enthusiast (95)Firmly tannic in character, this wine is dry and extracted. There's potential for this powerful, impressive wine to bear the wine's very dry character with the weight of its fruit. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 90 (WA) |
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SG$995.00 |
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Wine Advocate (90)The 2013 Léoville-Barton has a more backward bouquet compared to the Langoa-Barton 2013, but there is more perfume here with blackberry, a touch of sea spray and cold limestone. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe tannin, a crisp line of acidity with finesse and elegance on the finish, which is one of the best you'll find in Saint Julien. This finishes with a flourish after a conservative opening and it should yield a decade of pleasure, maybe more. This is a solid showing in a tough vintage. |
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