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Tasting notes
Score 91/100 · Wine Spectator

A powerful nose, with sweet tobacco and sultana, follows through to a full body, featuring ultrafine tannins and a long, long finish, as well as lovely texture. This needs more time. Still tight and structured.¿'89/'99 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2009). Best after 2011. 19,165 cases made. James Suckling,Wine Spectator 2010.

Critic scores

Critic scores
90
90/100

Average Score

91
91/100

Wine Spectator

88
88/100

Robert Parker

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88 points
Robert Parker
Score 88/100 · Robert Parker

Dry tannin and a backward, austere, muscular, brooding personality characterize Leoville Barton's 1999. However, it is packed with grip, body, and depth. Give it 5-6 years of cellaring and hope the tannin melts away sufficiently for the fruit to come forward. It should last for two decades, but will it ever be balanced? Apr 2002, www.robertparker.com

About the producer

Château Léoville Barton - producer
Leoville Barton

Ch. Léoville Barton is a Second Growth Saint-Julien estate, one of the three famous Léoville estates (along with Léoville Poyferré and Léoville Las Cases). Owned by the Barton family (along with Ch. Langoa Barton), it produces classically structured Claret that ages beautifully.

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