Community Tasting Note
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Matt Scott Likes this wine: 98 points
August 21, 2016 - See previous notes. Legendary, this is the finest Barton - period. More secondary notes of leather, dried mushroom and feminine essence, there's still a lot of blackberry and rose petal. An epic finish and a truly perfect nose. Drink now -.
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Champagneinhand commented:
8/22/16, 1:08 PM - I love Barton, and the 2003 is a perfect example. I think the 2000 will out shine it slightly, but the wine is built like a 1950s bomb shelter and will need quite a few more years to strut its stuff. for now we have the beautiful 2003. I love that Anthony Barton makes a good wine year in and year out, even if they are more built for the long term. His 3rd growth across the street, at the Chateau, is accessible a bit earlier, but stylistically much different. I think he does whats best for consumers and the people of Bordeaux who work the fields and do much of the hard work, and even has kept many negociants in business during not so good years and expensive years as well as he doesn't mark up his bottles very often to the negociants.
A model of how to run a winery and keep it in the family since before the 1855 classification. Only other Chateau to have family history going back that far is Mouton, and they are so much more expensive and not so great in off years, and can be rivaled by their neighbors which cost hundreds less. -
Matt Scott commented:
8/23/16, 7:46 PM - I agree on all points, Champagneinhand. The only exception would be the 2000 Barton, which I would put on the same echelon as the '05, and the '03 has a slight lead.
In fact here's my top ten favorite Bartons - which are in order:
1. '03
2. '00
3. '05
4. '10
5. '09
6. '95
7. '08
8. '89
9. '82
10. '01
Cheers!
P.S.
Las Cases should be a First Growth over Mouton! (Even though I do love Mouton, if you compared the two from '82 - on, Las Cases wins without any doubt in a side-by-side comparison.)