Chateau Leoville Barton2006
RED WINE
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Producer
Chateau Leoville Barton
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Blend
100% Red Bordeaux Blend
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Country
France
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Region
Bordeaux
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Appellation
Saint-Julien
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UPC
0 15643 79905 1
Reviews
Robert Parker 92
Tasted at Bordeaux Index's annual 10-Year On tasting in London. The 2006 Château Léoville-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.
by NM, Robert Parker , 2016
Wine Enthusiast 94
Right at the top of its form, this 2006 is one of the finest wines to come out of the vintage. The wine is structured and dense, but with such heartwarming ripe fruit that the tannins are almost submerged. There is just a hint of wood, but juicy black currant continues right through to the end. In a year, the fruit will lessen, and long aging begin.
by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2009
Wine Spectator 94
There's a great dark color to this, with intense aromas of cedar, wood, new leather and crushed blackberry. Full-bodied, with loads of fruit and a firm, powerful palate. Long and mouthpuckering. A muscular baby. Best after 2015. 18,750 cases made.
by JS, Wine Spectator , 2009
Technical Details
Ageing
16 to18 months in French oak barrels in a cellar kept at constant temperature of 15°C.
Percentage of new barrels: 50/70% according vintages.
Topping 3 times a week.
Barrel to barrel racking.
Fining in the barrels with fresh egg whites.
History
Thomas Barton who had been trading since 1600s with Bordeaux, which was an important trading port on the Atlantic coast, left his native Ireland to settle in Bordeaux. In 1725, he created the negociant company and become in twenty years an influential figure of the wine trade, whose reputation far exceeded the French and even European borders.
His grand-son Hugh succeeded him in 1786, at the age of twenty years, and strengthened the family
business trading. With his energy and efficiency, Hugh Barton consolidated his fortune and decided to
acquire vineyards in the Medoc region. In 1826, he acquired a quarter of the former Leoville property, confiscated and divided after the French Revolution. He renamed the plot <> to differentiate it from others.
Afterwards, three generations succeeded at the head of
the vineyard, but it is thanks to Ronald Barton’s accomplishment that the integrity of vineyards remained during the difficult years of the interwar period. Anthony Barton, the current owner, born in Ireland, joined his uncle in France in 1951 to integrate the trading house and assist him in the
direction of the property.
Today, the complicity between Anthony and his daughter Lilian Barton-Sartorius, strengthens and enhances the international reputation of Leoville Barton. Melanie Barton-Sartorius, oenologist
and Anthony’s granddaughter represents the tenth generation of Barton in Bordeaux.
Harvest
Work in the vineyards: traditional ploughing, no weed killing, reasoned additives. Pruning: double cane pruning adapted to the vigor of the vines. Manual harpening, topping and reasoned deleafing.
Manual harvesting follow by successive sorting operations of the grapes. De-stemming, crushing and fermenting plot by plot.