1996 Château Léoville Barton

Community Tasting Notes (522) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  4/19/2024 - Torchy wrote: 94 Points

  April BYO (Bodø, Norway): The wine is dark red. Nose with metallic blackcurrants, tobacco, coffee, and equestrian sports. In the mouth, it tastes of stable, lead, dark dense fruit, as well as something minty. The fruit is concentrated and somewhat angular, which makes me blindly think we are in Pauillac. We weren't!

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  4/7/2024 - Marc wrote: 94 Points

  Superb. Structured and mature. Cedar, forest floor, iron ore, iodine, blackcurrant. Very much Cabernet in personality. A dark and slightly feral wine- not just a creamy, cassis and oak style, but rather a wine of huge personality and layered depth. Not as refined as a first growth might be, and less classic for that, but complex and involving. Absolutely no hurry on this wine.

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  3/24/2024 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Excellent. Perfect now.

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  2/25/2024 - SlapTheBag wrote:

  This wine really came alive when paired with food. Nose had iodine, black currant and maybe a little black pepper. Palate had a little tar and funk to it, and the tannins are still strong giving it a very long finish.

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  2/18/2024 - anthroman wrote:

  A nice showing over dinner. Gave this a 90-minute decant and enjoyed over the following 90 minutes or so. Nose had tar and iodine tones with cassis and some dried flowers. Tarry red fruits and lively acidity on the palate with some tannins still flexing their muscles on the back end.

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