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• chatters wrote:

  December 10, 2023 - Early Christmas lunch (with KC) (KC's place): Matched with lamb rack and asparagus...Note from earlier this year applies here as well though the fruit was more brambly and, with air, it started to show a touch of Bretty farmyard and some more mushroomy notes. Nice enough but defo time to tidy up

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  June 30, 2023 - Coravin fun - Bordeaux (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. A touch of stalky herbaceousness encroaches with some bonfire, Autumn leaves, black fruits and fruit tea, earth, leather and blood. Quite leathery on the palate, muted brambles, fruit tea, that herbaceous quality translates here but is in the background, tannins are a silky burr, finishes savoury. drink up

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• diegovilla'ch wrote: 93 points

  March 2, 2023 - Almost popped and poured, perfect into neck level, nice cork, '87 Barton.
  Beautifully deep garnet coloured, with just slightly bricked rim. Good viscosity and quite slow legs.
  The nose is elegant, typical, brightly Cabernet based, wet moss, macerated cherries, dried blackcurrants, crème de cassis, damp earth, cigar box, old school graphite, burnt wood, old leather.
  Complexity is there, maybe a little green, charred bell pepper, cloves, dead leaves. The palate is medium bodied and still nicely structured, with almost resolved tannins, a refreshing acidity and a salty minerality.
  Is like drinking liquid silk, altough not very deep, the wine still has some black fruits left, along with a nice taste of tobacco, espresso, and baking spices. Very earthy, the finish is quite long.
  This is a very elegant, herbacious, light footed aged claret, which for me shows a great effort from Leoville Barton to make a top wine in a weak vintage.
  Surely at apex since many years, but not at all down the hill or dead, indeed pretty alive, i believe you can wait up to 5 years or so if you like, and if the bottle is well stored.
  Great as always classic St. Julien.

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• chatters wrote:

  March 8, 2022 - Coravin fun - Leoville Barton; 3/8/2022-3/15/2022 (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Slight pyrazine, biscuit, smells wet. Red over blackcurrant, leather, dusty cigar box. Lovely nose. Juicy, fleshy, quite linear, wild black and red currant with herbaceous underpin. Leathery, slightly drying, chamois soft tannins complement these flavours, balanced, splendid

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• chatters wrote:

  December 21, 2020 - Coravin fun - Leoville Barton and new arrivals (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Wetly Autumnal, leaves, a little farmyard, slight pyrazine, red and blackcurrant, a little toast and biscuit, pencil shavings, smells fresh and the palate is very much a reflection of the nose, chalky tannic burr, long, fresh, lovely, a little liquorice here as well. Yum.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1987
• Type Red
• Producer Château Léoville Barton
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation St. Julien

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• In Cellars 79 (83%)
• Consumed 16 (17%)

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