Reserve de Leoville Barton 2000 (review)

80 points

From St Julian, Bordeaux

2nd wine of Leoville Barton a consistently fine producer.

This is awesome shiny red/black wine. Intense and concentrated, classic cassis but marred by volatile acidity. One suspects that this 2nd wine is made simply of casks that showed too much volatility. Which in turn makes me suspect the 2000 Leoville must be an incredibly intense concentrated wine.

Reminds me a bit of Wynn's John Riddoch cabernet from coonawarra Australia. An expensive Australian wine that isn't a lot of fun to drink.