Unlike most Bordeaux wine producers, interestingly, Château Leoville Barton has no chateau. The wines are made at their sister property, Château Langoa Barton with which it shares ownership. Here’s a little bit of Bordeaux wine trivia for you, the château pictured on the label for Leoville Barton is actually their sister estate, Chateau Langoa Barton. Read more...
Alluring, with warm fig sauce, plum and currant paste notes liberally laced with espresso bean and dark roasted vanilla bean notes. Fleshy but focused, with the roasted edge adding definition and length. Drink now through 2019. 16,665 cases made.
Typically extracted and powerful (which is atypical in a vintage such as 2008), this offering may lack charm, but it is “locked and loaded” with plenty of background oak, huge black cherry and black currant fruit, medium to full body and a boatload of tannin. Forget it for 8-10 years and drink it over the following three decades. #194May 2011