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2020 Château Léoville-Barton, Cru Classé St-Julien
The 2020 Léoville-Barton is spectacular. Notes of dark fruit and a sumptuous texture create a wine that's mouth filling yet light on its feet. This is brilliant: not to be missed. 25% less released from the estate.
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Duty paid means taxes are included and the wine is ready for home delivery and drinking.
- Case of 6 x 75cl0in basket
- 75cl Bottle0in basket
Wine specification
- ProducerChâteau Léoville-Barton
- ColourRed Wine
- SweetnessDry
- Region & CountryMédoc, Bordeaux, France
- ABV13.5%
- MaturityReady to drink 2026 – 2049
- StyleStill Wine
- ClassificationDeuxième Cru
Product Description
The 2020 Léoville-Barton is spectacular. Notes of dark fruit and a sumptuous texture create a wine that's mouth filling yet light on its feet. This is brilliant: not to be missed. 25% less released from the estate.
Critic Scores
96-97/100 – James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
05/05/2021
A full-bodied red that builds on the palate with lots of blackberry and blueberry character, as well as chocolate. Mineral and graphite undertones. Chewy, yet very integrated. Excellent, as expected.
94-96/100 – Neal Martin, vinous.com
01/05/2021
The 2020 Léoville Barton was picked September 15–16 and matured in 70% new oak. It is one of the best vintages that I have encountered in barrel. Wow! This shoots from the glass with beautifully defined black fruit, mineral-rich aromas, pixelated with laser-like focus. The palate is medium-bodied with chiseled tannins, a perfect line of acidity, layers of vibrant, vivacious black fruit and a very persistent finish that is pure class. If you don’t have this in your cellar, then there will be a Léoville Barton–shaped hole to fill.
94/100 – Jane Anson, Decanter
01/05/2021
Packed full of black chocolate shavings, liquorice, cocoa bean, concentrated cassis and bilberry fruits. Good quality, will bed down and age extremely well, with depth and character but also classicism. As with many in this corner of the Médoc peninsula in this vintage, the austerity to the tannins is very much to the fore right now. May be upscored when in bottle.
18/20 – Jancis Robinson MW, jancisrobinson.com
13/04/2021
Lustrous purple. Minerally, stony, saline nose. Really remarkably opulent on palate entry which almost distracts from those massive tannins underneath. There's just a suggestion of vintage port tannins here (not the sweetness). Very fine winemaking indeed. I have to admit I was tempted to swallow this, it was so majestic. I don't remember being as bowled over by a Léoville Barton at this early stage before. Lovely, confident, persistent finish. Such grace!