2006 Château Léoville Barton, St Julien, Bordeaux

From one of my favourite estates in Saint-Julien, the 2006 Château Léoville Barton is now fully mature (yet certainly youthful) and has a complex, layered profile that includes ample red and black fruits as well as perfumed notes of leafy herbs, cedar pencil, tobacco, and hints of crushed stone. Medium to full-bodied, nicely balanced, and textured, it has the more focused, straight, classic style of this château front and centre, with integrated yet still present tannins, beautiful overall balance, and a great finish. A classy, layered, complex textbook, Bordeaux, will continue drinking nicely for another two decades, with a gradual decline after that.

Drink 2023 - 2043

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2023)