Description / Reviews
// 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot
"Attractive perfume of cassis, sweet black olive notes, clove-cedar woodiness, tobacco and faint graphite notes. Succulent and gently mouth-filling flavours and textures, lightly powdery tannins build to a gentle pucker, woodiness sits over dark-plummy, black olive-tinged fruit character. Just shy of medium weight, a great sense of understated and elegant despite the oak overlay. Finesse writ large. Delightful and vivid expression." - 95+ Points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
"The 2015 Léoville Barton has one of the richest bouquets in the appellation, boasting almost ostentatious blackberry, raspberry and bilberry scents on the nose, suffused with crushed limestone and light graphite aromas. The medium-bodied palate is taut and crisp, delivering a fine bead of acidity and freshness from beginning to end. Mainly black fruit here, with suggestions of leather and mocha toward the finish. Superb. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting." - 95 Points, Neal Martin, Vinous
"One of the deepest, richest and darkest of the St-Juliens in 2015, showing a lick of tar and a crack of cassis. Confident and settling in for the long haul, a salty minerality kicks in on the finish to give a mouthwatering quality. 60% new oak barrels. Eric Boissenot consults." - 94 Pionts, Jane Anson, Decanter