Julien Baillard

Château Léoville Barton

Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 1988

Shay A
9.2

Annual birthday WWC hosting. As normal, 1 sparkler, 3 whites, 4 reds, 1 dessert, all presented blind.

Fun to open birth year wines around your birthday, especially when you can do a Bordeaux and Napa side by side. While not a great vintage, this held up well after a few hours and presented as expected. Clean and zero Brett. Great color! Deep ruby with hardly any bricking. Leather, cassis, vanilla pipe tobacco on the nose. Sporting a good bit of dusty red and black fruits (mostly tart raspberries and blackberries), there was a little savory truffle note mixed with an herbal and mocha finish. Still quite grippy. Pretty.
— 10 days ago

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Château Lagrange

Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend

Color concentration. Slight black currant focused. Good concentration. Elegant. Gentle
2018 @10230, AD, 202429
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Château Talbot

Saint-Julien Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2024

Piacevole artigianalita. Naturally expressive. Quite untouched fruit. Finish a bit harsh. May improve. — 8 days ago

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Château Lagrange

Les Fiefs de Lagrange St. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend

6 years. Matured and concentrated. Still tannic. 2018 @5940, AD, 240429 — a day ago

Château Branaire (Duluc-Ducru)

St. Julien- Beychevelle Red Bordeaux Blend 1924

No matter the scores on such an old wine. It had More depth but also lacking some sort of perfection experienced in other wines of the same age tasted together. Overall a great experience. — 4 days ago

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Château Gruaud Larose

Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend

Vintage 1995 | Vanilla, forrest wood, true to type, well balanced but also tannins - very good effort — 2 days ago

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Timothy Lynch

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Château Léoville Poyferré

Saint Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 2025

Very intense, expressive and pretty nose. It keeps showing well on the palate with a nice long finish. Big wine for the vintage. — 8 days ago

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Château Branaire (Duluc-Ducru)

St. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 2018

Wonderful Bordeaux blend from Saint-Julien. Super dry dark blue fruit seamlessly integrated with aged wood notes of dark chocolate, raw tobacco and leather (remember chewing on this as a kid 😁) and smooth rounded tannins. A great wine to just sip, reminisce and… wondering where the oldest vineyard in the world might be? You want to know? Check out our latest story on https://spokenwines.com/spoken-wines/ or jump directly to https://youtu.be/7qURFipuKBI?si=S1sjSbvfu_LLMWik Please comment and subscribe to help our wine story telling mission 🙏🙏 — 16 days ago

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Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend

Precise, minty, fresh. Subtle on the entrance then arrives a great weight. Quite tipical Ducru-Beaucaillou even tho is lacking something to make it very great. Probably a bit too austere. — 7 days ago

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Château Langoa Barton

Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 2023

Beautiful. A bit of everything. Freshness, depth, fruit and minerality. Long and pleasant finish.
94 +
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