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2005 Château Leoville-Barton

Light label condition issue

Removed from a professional wine storage facility

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

Removed from a professional wine storage facility

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RATINGS

96Wine Spectator

Delivers breathtaking aromas of blackberry, currant, licorice and flowers. Full-bodied, with a solid core of fruit and supersilky tannins. Dark chocolate, currant, berry and licorice follow through. This is racy and beautiful.

94Stephen Tanzer

Wonderfully perfumed nose offers cassis, minerals, tobacco, flowers, mocha and truffle.

92Robert M. Parker Jr.

Inky ruby/purple color and shows fairly high tannin levels...With deep cassis and red currant fruit, the wine is earthy, spicy, medium to full-bodied

18Jancis Robinson

...Tight, concentrated and very focused. Luscious texture and a wine that slides across the palate. There is masses of tannin on the finish but it is ripe enough...

REGION

France, Bordeaux, St.-Julien

Saint-Julien is the smallest of the four main Médoc appellations with 2,175 acres of vineyards. It is just south of Pauillac on the left bank of the Gironde, and although it has no First Growth châteaux, its 11 Classified Growth estates are widely admired. Robert M. Parker Jr. has written that winemaking in Saint-Julien from all classifications “is consistently both distinctive and brilliant.” He adds it is Médoc’s “most underrated commune.” The best-known estates are Léoville Las Cases, Ducru-Beaucaillou, Léoville Poyferré, Léoville Barton and Gruaud Larose, and most of those have riverside estates. The soil in this appellation is gravelly with clay. Cabernet Sauvignon is the main grape grown, and it is blended with Cabernet Franc, Merlot and sometimes small amounts of Petit Verdot.