Leoville Barton 巴頓 2008 (OWC of 12)
Price: $725 / bottle
Color: | Red |
Vintage: | 2008 |
Producer: | - |
Classification: | 2eme Grand Cru Classe |
Region: | Bordeaux |
Sub-region: | Saint Julien |
Size: | 75cl |
Minimum order: | 12 bottles |
Expert Score:
Robert Parker (RP) | Jancis Robinson (JR) | Wine Spectator (WS) |
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92 | 17 | 91 |
Description
By Wine Enthusiast 2011 (WE96)
A dense, beautifully structured wine. It shows intense, ripe fruit with balanced acidity. It’s the fine tannins that give it such class, surrounding the fruit, promising long aging. This is a classic for Léoville-Barton. *Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2011*
By James Suckling 2016 (JS94)
This was always one of the wines of the vintage with currant, cassis and chocolate aromas and flavors. Full body, chewy and polished tannins and a fresh and fine finish. Tight now but so beautiful. Decant a couple of hours before serving.
By Neal Martin of Vinous in 2018 (NM93)
The 2008 Léoville Barton has a lovely, heart-warming bouquet of ripe blackberry and cedar, touches of graphite, precise and supremely well focused. Classic Barton. The palate is medium-bodied, fresh and lively with impressive density; structured with a firm backbone on the graphite-tinged and tensile finish that suggests that it deserves another 3-4 years in bottle. Excellent.
By Robert Parker in 2011 (RP92)
Typically extracted and powerful (which is atypical in a vintage such as 2008), this offering may lack charm, but it is ‘locked and loaded’ with plenty of background oak, huge black cherry and black currant fruit, medium to full body and a boatload of tannin. Forget it for 8-10 years and drink it over the following three decades.
By Decanter in 2017 (JA92)
This is an excellent St-Julien with a brisk attack and a rather lovely restrained, savoury edge to the tightly structured black fruits. It has great texture, and a silkier flesh to the fruit which has depth and persistence. Fully ripe but not tiptoeing a single centimetre over the line – nor under it, unlike a few in this vintage. A good job.
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