Leoville Barton - 2000 (750ml) Size:750ml This hulking

This hulking

Best from 2011 through 2017

The flavors are reticent but promising

It receives the “200% new oak” treatment spending 12 months in 100% new French oak before racking into a different set of new barrels for 6 months

I suspect it might smell like this

Leoville Barton - 2000 (750ml) Size:750ml This hulkingI found this to be one of the more backward wines of the 2000 vintage and gave it a window of maturity of 2015 2040 when I reviewed it in 2003. In my two recent tastings of it, I changed that window to 2018 2050, which probably says more than the following tasting note could say. This is a behemoth dense, highly extracted, very tannic, broodingly backward, with a dense purple color and very little evolution since it was bottled 8 years ago.