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  • Country ranking ?

    680
  • Producer ranking ?

    10
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    From 2020
  • Food Pairing

    Grilled Beef Tenderloin with roasted bellpeppers & Aged Manchego

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The Story

The 50 hectares of Léoville and 17 hectares of Langoa, planted in gravelly soil with a clay sub-soil, include large proportions of old vines in order to obtain the best possible quality. The grape varieties is 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc for Léoville Barton, while Langoa Barton’s terroir is shared as follows 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot and 9% Cabernet Franc. Both properties have the same vinification methods.

The wines are typical of the Saint-Julien area, well balanced wines with subtle bouquets and flavours; the emphasis being on elegance and finesse rather than on power and extraction. This is achieved by picking the grapes at their maximum ripeness and allowing the fermentation to take place at a controlled temperature of 30/32°C. Although excessive extraction is avoided by removing the juice from the skins at the appropriate time, the wines have a lovely deep colour, excellent structure and sufficient tannins to ensure good ageing potential.

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"I found this to be one of the more backward wines of the 2000 vintage and gave it a window of maturity of 2015-2040 when I reviewed it in 2003. In my two recent tastings of it, I changed that window to 2018-2050, which probably says more than the following tasting note could say." – Robert Parker / Wine Advocate (June 2010)

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Vintage 2000

Weather conditions / The 2000 vintage was proclaimed from the start as one of the best vintages of modern times. In the spring of 2003, I had many opportunities to find out if we really had a true dream vintage on our hands.

During the 2000 harvest, while doing a “personal inspection” in the vineyards, I noticed that something extraordinary was on the way. The grapes looked extremely healthy.

While the sorting table was rolling, I observed that there were few leaves, stems and weeds among the grapes. This is why sorting the grapes was so easy and quick. This must be one of the characteristics of the 2000 vintage, because normally even great vintages require a lot of work at the sorting table.

 

The 2000 vintage is a classic, extravagant and extremely long Bordeaux with dark and extremely dense wines, which have a huge concentration of fruit, length and superbly concentrated tannins. The tannin is not allowed to dominate, as it is well enveloped by the fruit. A scent of under-ripeness is only present in a few wines. One of the hallmarks of this vintage is an intense, deep aroma of dark berries, such as blueberries, blackberries and black cherries.

All red grape varieties have reached perfect maturity, including Bordeaux's most temperamental and unruly grape variety, Petit Verdot. Petit Verdot brings to wines the long-awaited addition of backbone and power.

Additionally, the grapes for whites, such as Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Muscadelle, ripened perfectly and produced extremely fine dry white wines. The sweet white wines have unfortunately transformed into some light, elegant and charming wines, based 100% on the September harvest. From October 11, it rained a lot in Bordeaux and this continued until the end of the year.

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Written Notes

The 2000 Leoville Barton was atypically subtle and wound at first. After some serious coaxing, aromas of brick, fireplace, cedar, coffee, cassis and deep roasted nuts all emerged. Its long and robust nose became very classic and full of spine, and it was easily the most concentrated wine so far. ‘Is it Cali?’ Wendy joked, but then she admitted that it only walked the line. The palate was also very concentrated and long, possessing spine and more noticeable alcohol but still tasty. The more wines that I had, the more I thought about 1982. Wendy admired its ‘fantastic length.’ The Barton got sweeter in the glass and definitely had that Napa Valley Grill to it but was still outstanding
  • 95p

Bought en primeur. Perfect cork and level.

My big mistake: I decanted this wine for only 1 hour. Later I thought that if you try this wine now better allow it to breathe for four or even more hours. The bouquet is very appealing, although not fully evolved as the whole wine is quite backward and in my opinion much too young to enjoy now. Black berries, cedar, slightly earthy but clearly a great vintage for Cabernet Sauvignon, as no off-turning green flavours come up. This has real class, no doubt about it, but the tannins rule today. The sweet fruit is present, but patience is required, I will not touch this wine in the next five to ten years and I am sure you can keep it up to three decades from now. It will not try out, don't worry, there is sufficient fruit. Great potential and I am happy to be able to follow its evolution.          

  • 94p
Solid purple at the rim, more than with the ’01. Subdued aroma profile. However, all comes good as this wine give effortlessly charming pleasure on the palate. A gorgeous mid-palate of chocolate coated red strawberries, mocha, and vanilla, with integrated oak. Cask samples of this wine showed enormous promise but we’ll have to wait another 10 years to find out whether such prodigious scoring returns. 18.5 pts.
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Saint-Julien, Bordeaux

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