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2016 Château Langoa Barton, St Julien, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (55%),Merlot (37%),Cabernet Franc (8%)
Ready - at best
James Molesworth
93-96/100
Jane Anson MW
94/100
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
93/100
Jancis Robinson MW
17.5/20
Product: 20161012172
2016 Château Langoa Barton, St Julien, Bordeaux

Description

Cabernet Sauvignon 55%; Merlot 37%; Cabernet Franc 8%.

This wine has a wonderful dark purple hue and a very strong, fine colour this year. It has notes of cedar, mint, and pine. On the palate, it is sappy and bright with a suave texture and grippy tannins. The vines here are grown on deep gravel over a clay subsoil. It finishes long, with a saline finish.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2016
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (55%),Merlot (37%),Cabernet Franc (8%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Langoa-Barton

Critics reviews

James Molesworth 93-96/100
The fresh blueberry, cherry and black currant flavors give this a wide range, while racy graphite and a mouthwatering anise streak drive the finish. The fruit is so enticing that you lose track of how solidly built this is through the finish. james_molesworth - Wine Spectator, April 2017
James Molesworth, WineSpectator.com (Apr 2017)
Jane Anson MW 94/100
This is a controlled, confident and elegant demonstration of the appellation in this vintage. Coffee grounds on the nose and through the mid palate with tight, cassis-drenched fruits, cedar and menthol, ticking those St-Julien boxes. Drinking Window 2027 - 2050. jane_anson_mw - Decanter, 3rd April 2017
Jane Anson MW, Decanter.com (Apr 2017)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 93/100
The 2016 Langoa Barton is medium to deep garnet-purple colored and opens with cedar, red and black currants, kirsch and menthol with smoked meats. The palate is medium to full-bodied, firm, grainy and packed with youthful, energetic fruit, finishing long and perfumed.Lisa Perrotti-Brown - 30/11/2018
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, (Nov 2018)
Jancis Robinson MW 17.5/20
Exceptionally dark purple. Very meaty, concentrated nose with real lift. Lots of graphite and grit. No spare flesh but truly terroir wine. Sinewy. Bone-dry finish. Very much in its own style. But long and precise. Drink 2027-2045. jancis_robinson_mw - 18th April 2017
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Apr 2017)

About this wine

Cabernet Sauvignon

The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
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Saint-Julien

Saint-Julien

St Julien is the smallest of the ‘Big Four’ Médoc communes although, without any First Growths, it is recognised to be the most consistent of the main communes with many châteaux turning out impressive wines year after year. The wines can be judged as much by texture as flavour, and there is a sleek, wholesome character to the best. At their very finest they combine Margaux’s elegance and refinement with Pauillac’s power and substance.
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Chateau Langoa Barton

Château Langoa-Barton, 3rd Classified Growth, was the first of the two Bordeaux wine estates bought by Hugh Barton in the 1820s, the other being Léoville-Barton, 2nd Classified Growth. Hugh Barton was a descendant of an Irish family which settled in Bordeaux in the 18th century and which has a long and distinguished history in the region’s wine trade. Both properties are still family-owned and run and together represent the longest tradition of unchanged ownership in the Médoc. After the death of the late Anthony Barton in 2022, his daughter Lilian and grandson Damien Barton have now taken the reins.
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