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Chateau Leoville Barton2009

RED WINE

PUBLIC
May 2025
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Chateau Leoville Barton label
  • Producer Chateau Leoville Barton
  • Blend 100% Red Bordeaux Blend
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Saint-Julien
  • UPC 0 15643 48109 3

Reviews

James Suckling 96

A super-classic St.-Julien that only has a hint of the opulence of the vintage. The beautiful cassis fruit and elegantly dry tannins push briskly through the long and graceful finish.

by JS, James Suckling , 2019

Wine Enthusiast 98

A major success of the vintage. The wine exhibits extreme richness of the fruit, with all its sweet blackberry flavors. It also has underlying firm structure, density and solid tannins. Bring in the acidity at the end, and this is both impressive and ready for long-term aging.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2012

Wine Spectator 95

This is powerful Cabernet, with gutsy weight, but polished feel to the fresh plum, warm blackberry sauce, bittersweet ganache and roasted apple wood notes. Long and tarry through the finish, but still invigorating despite its heft. Will need some time to round fully into form. Best from 2017 through 2035. Tasted twice, with consistent notes. 21,000 cases made. –JM

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2012

Wine Advocate 94

Medium to deep garnet colored, the 2009 Leoville Barton gives up expressive cherry cordial, warm cassis and blackberry tart scents with nuances of menthol, cigar box and fallen leaves. Medium-bodied and elegantly played with loads of freshness and soft tannins, it has a long, perfumed finish.

by LPB, Wine Advocate , 2019

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.

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.

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.