Community Tasting Note

englishman's claret wrote:

Saturday, April 20, 2019 - The 2010 Leoville Barton is a striking wine, brimming with rich cassis, cedar, lavender, mineral, and touches of anise and tobacco. This is a tremendously large-scaled wine on both the nose and palate, yet so well-mannered and not at all inelegant. This reaches 13.5% and it's good that it's no higher as it just avoids being hot and is well balanced by the robust body and high tannin. Long, pure fruit finish. Interestingly, the nose is very expressive for the first half hour of air and then closes in, remaining reasonably reticent for the following 12 hours. This is special stuff and, if you have a bunch, it's worth opening one now to understand the impressive raw material you'll be able to watch evolve over the next 60 years.

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