| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | France > Bordeaux > Left Bank > St Julien |
| Colour | Red |
| Type | Still |
Attractive, with personality and texture to the loganberry and blackberry fruit. The muscular tannins have juice running through them, and overall this has plenty of lift and tension while remaining appealingly unfussy.
The 2019 La Réserve de Léoville Barton offers a mixture of red and black fruit, quite perfumed and floral, with crushed violet. The palate is well balanced, very supple, pure and elegant, leading to a delineated finish. This is lovely in an old-school way and will only need a couple of years in bottle. 2023 - 2033
Always a wine that leans on classicism, 2019's natural softness rounds out the edges and offers some plush black fruit. Mid ruby-purple in the glass, notes of black cherry, dried rosemary and blackcurrant from the core of both the nose and palate. As the second wine of Leoville Barton it still offers some tannic oomph, a chewy backbone pointing to the northern Médoc. Here, however, the structure is ripe, coated in the black fruit at the core. Well made, with good bones and admirable fruit.
