Author Archives: Sindy Leung

Ratings By Robert Parker 85 Tasting Notes Spicy wood and ripe but diluted dried herb and smoky red and black currant aromas and flavors comprise this pleasant, straightforward, supple-textured 1997. Drink it during its first 6-8 years of life.(Wine Advocate #128 Apr 2000) By Robert Parker

Ratings By Robert Parker 83 Tasting Notes A disappointment for Medoc in this vintage, the 1996 Giscours has an evolved plum color with some pink at the rim. The wine is soft, shows some herbaceously tinged berry fruit, hints of licorice and black currants, but not much depth or texture. Obviously, little selection was employed… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 85 Tasting Notes A supple, picnic-style claret with considerable appeal but no depth or intensity to its flavors, this soft, fully mature wine exhibits plum/ruby color and has an herbaceous, cedary nose of sweet cherries and currants. The wine is medium-bodied, spicy, pleasant, but undistinguished. Drink it over the next 5-7… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes This potential sleeper of the vintage has come around nicely now that it is in bottle. Elegant yet substantial, it exhibits a dense purple color as well as a sweet bouquet of black currants, cassis, cedarwood, herbs, toast and loamy soil undertones. Medium to full-bodied with sweet tannin… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes The dark-colored 2007 Langoa Barton may be too angular, austere, and excessively extracted. This masculine, hard wine may or may not settle down, but it is not a style of wine that??s conducive to the lightness and charm of a vintage such as 2007. Time will tell. Forget… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 89+ Tasting Notes This tastes more like a Pauillac than a St.-Julien with its big, beefy, tannic overlay and aromas and flavors of black currants, asphalt, leather, and damp earth. Tannic, full-bodied but almost impenetrably closed and broodingly backward, this is a long-term prospect for those with patience. Anticipated maturity: 2018-2030+.(Wine… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 90? Tasting Notes This primordial-styled, incredibly tannic St.-Julien reveals a dense purple color along with aromas of roasted meats, tapenade, cassis, melted licorice, and chocolate. Following the promising aromatic display, the wine shuts down in the mouth, revealing only excruciating tannin and good acidity. It will not be ready to drink… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker Tasting Notes Another sleeper of the vintage from this somewhat under the radar step-child of Anthony Barton??s more famous Leoville Barton, the 2004 Langoa Barton exhibits deep, concentrated, chunky, black currant and cherry fruit intermixed with notions of forest floor and aged beef blood. This impressive, full-bodied, powerful, ageworthy St.-Julien is… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes This is often looked at as the second wine of Leoville Barton, but it is actually a separate estate, producing wines that are slightly softer than the more formidably endowed and broodingly backward Leoville Bartons. The outstanding 2003, a softer version of the Leoville Barton, exhibits a deep… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes The saturated ruby/plum-tinged 2002 reveals a tight but promising nose of underbrush, new saddle leather, damp earth, black currants and cherries. It is a strongly structured, potent effort with medium to full body, and impressive purity, but loads of tannin presented in a frightfully backward style. Anticipated maturity:… Read More »