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2006 Château Léoville Barton, St Julien, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
Ready, but will improve
Neal Martin MW
92/100
Robert Parker
91/100
Product: 20061012361
2006 Château Léoville Barton, St Julien, Bordeaux

Description

From one of my favourite estates in Saint-Julien, the 2006 Château Léoville Barton is now fully mature (yet certainly youthful) and has a complex, layered profile that includes ample red and black fruits as well as perfumed notes of leafy herbs, cedar pencil, tobacco, and hints of crushed stone. Medium to full-bodied, nicely balanced, and textured, it has the more focused, straight, classic style of this château front and centre, with integrated yet still present tannins, beautiful overall balance, and a great finish. A classy, layered, complex textbook, Bordeaux, will continue drinking nicely for another two decades, with a gradual decline after that.

Drink 2023 - 2043

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2006
Alcohol % 12.5
Maturity Ready, but will improve
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Léoville Barton

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 92/100
Tasted at Bordeaux Index's annual 10-Year On tasting in London. The 2006 Chteau Loville-Barton has a surprisingly rich and opulent bouquet at first, although it calms down with aeration, offering crushed violet and black cherry scents, reminiscent of a fine Margaux. The palate is medium-bodied with a gentle grip in the mouth. Here the class begins to appear with fine balance and poise, but like the Langoa, it lacquers the mouth with tannins and feels very backward, surprising given the vintage. Cellar this for another decade, folks. Tasted January 2016.Neil Martin - 30/05/2016
Neal Martin MW, (May 2016)
Robert Parker 91/100
Not surprisingly, this wine is closed, masculine, but super-rich, with a denser, more complete and full-bodied style than its sibling, Langoa Barton. Some toasty vanillin is apparent in the black currant aromas intermixed with tobacco leaf, cedar, and spice box. The wine is full-bodied and has a boatload of tannin, not unusual for this estate, as well as an impressively pure, long finish. Everything is here, but this wine, made with uncompromising vision, is meant to be cellared for an exceptionally long period of time. robert_parker - Wine Advocate - Feb-2009
Robert Parker, RobertParker.com (Feb 2009)

About this wine

Chateau Leoville Barton

Château Léoville Barton is the smallest portion of the great Léoville estate and has been owned by the Barton family since 1826. There is no château and the wine is made at Langoa Barton.
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