Red Bordeaux - 1989 - Leoville Barton

  • Region: Red Bordeaux
  • Vintage: 1989
  • Rating: 89
  • Notes:
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QtyUnitSizeCase SizePriceReserve
1Case75cl12£1,175

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Tasting Notes

This wine continues to lose out to its younger sibling, the 1990. Aromatically, the dark garnet (some amber is beginning to creep in at the edge) 1989 seems fully mature until it hits the palate. There is big, spicy, cedary, sweet cherry and black currant fruit, along with some tobacco notes in the impressive aromatics. On the palate, the wine is more narrowly constructed, medium-bodied, with excellent richness on the attack but then some relatively dry, dusty tannins in the finish. This kind of performance tends to suggest the wine needs to be drunk sooner rather than later. Anticipated maturity: Now-2016. Last tasted, 9/01.