1998 Château Léoville Barton

Community Tasting Notes (301) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  2/20/2024 - Zweder Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Monthly Tuesday group "The Dead Sparrow": Pauillac and St. Julien (By me @ the factory): In the bouquet dark berries, minerals and beautifully dosed oak. On the palate an elegant wine with fresh acidity, dark and red berries, beautiful oak and cedar, good acidity and tannin with still enough power for some more years. Beautiful and classical wine.

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  10/14/2023 - Bellissimo wrote:

  Decanted 45 minutes at home, cleared sediment, brought to a restaurant where it was slow-O'd for another hour. Note going from memory.
  
  Not a lot of fruit more tertiary flavors at this point. Yes there were some black currants and plum but there was also fennel, mushroom, tobacco, and aged balsamic. Everything was nicely balanced and it held its flavor profile over 60-90 minutes after we got around to it. This exceeded my expectations. Birth year wine for eldest and so happy to share with everyone.
  
  NOTE: this was purchased in 2011 from a reputable retailer and stored properly since that time. Cork was unbelievably pristine. Really shocking for a 25 year old wine, looked like was laying on its side for a year.

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  9/30/2023 - TheForces wrote:

  Flawed bottle

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  8/17/2023 - Darbus123 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Not a lot of fruit but plenty of leather and balsamic. Auction purchase so not sure how well this had been stored but the bottle seemed very advanced. Great fun to drink, best with food.

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  6/30/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Coravin fun - Bordeaux (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. A little almost raspberry note is intertwined with slightly dried our plums and blackcurrant, mushroom, Autumn leaves, wet earth, cedar, tiny touch of pencil shavings. Medium plus intensity acidity freshens everything; some sweet black fruits, Asian five spice, fruit tea, a little leafy quality, tannins are drying, talc textured but in support. Hmm

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