Ch. Leoville Barton '99 / Saint Julien

I went to a wine festival, "world wine and cheese festival," @ Daimaru Tokyo (next to Tokyo station). There are 200 kinds of free tasting wine, some charged tasting wine, and many kinds of free tasting cheese.   Also these products are all on sales (some wine is more than 10% off), and can be shipped to your home.

There are many varieties of wine from all over the world, so I was so excited and tasted so many kinds....

At the charged tasting booth, I found one of the Grands Crus Classe Bordeaux! Yeah, let's taste it!!

Ch. Leoville Barton '99 / Saint Julien (Second Cru)

Dark ruby color with orange at the edge.  Aroma of cassis and blackberries (a bit dried not fresh one) with powerful bouquet of cider, pencil, leather, clove, ciger, truffle and leaf mold.  The tannin was rich , so the texture was a bit tannic at the first.  As time went, the tannin became round and silky.  The wine I had seems at the mid to latter peak.  If I describe it as human, this wine is like "mid to old gentleman." Well, it's in good mean.  It was wonderful wine in the fact.

There are three "Ch. Leoville ～" in Second cru classe of Medoc, Bordeaux; Leoville Las Cases, Leoville Poyferre, and Leoville Barton.  These wineries used to be one winery "Ch. Leoville," whose history began in 1638.  The wine of Ch. Leoville was high quality, thus evaluated and famous as "the vast and great vineyard."  In 1826, the Barton family owned 1/4 of the vast Leoville vineyard, and the history of Ch. Leoville Barton began.        

Its grape varieties is 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and 8% Cabernet Franc.  The wine is bottled after 18 months aging in 50% new oak barrel.

The wine of Ch. Leoville Barton is usually very classic Bordeaux style.  The quality is high, but it's a little minor as comparing with the other "Leoville"s; thus, the cost performance is high.


This wine is available at this online shop;

This site has an English page as well (at the bottom of this site, there is an "English" link), but they ship only within Japan.


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