Chateau Leoville Barton Bordeaux 2018 Sale textured/slippery fruit

textured/slippery fruit

drive and balance

blackcurrant fruit

From organically grown grapes

grainy tannins

Chateau Leoville Barton Bordeaux 2018 Sale textured/slippery fruitA brilliant Leoville, continuing to impress as it has every time I have tasted it. The width and depth of the ripe tannins is matched pace for pace by an elegance to the cassis, bilberry, blackcurrant fruit. As it opens, cocoa bean, smoked earth, charcoal, graphite and woodsmoke come spiralling out of the glass, and this is just gorgeous. Easily one of the wines of the vintage not just in St Julien but across Bordeaux. 70% new oak. Technical director