1976 Leoville Barton

Tasted at the 190th anniversary Leoville Barton lunch, others were more impressed by the 1976 Leoville-Barton than I was. I thought the nose was showing a little cork taint, even so the palate expressed the heat of that torridly hot summer: smudged red fruit, fig and dried prune, though there is decent weight on the fleshy, rather unruly finish. I suspect that it was drinking much better in the 1990s. Tasted November 2016. Dec 2016, www.robertparker.com

Neal Martin    Score: 84/100