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Chateau Langoa Barton2009

RED WINE

PUBLIC
May 2025
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Chateau Langoa Barton label
  • Producer Chateau Langoa Barton
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Saint-Julien
  • UPC 0 15643 42453 3

Reviews

Wine Advocate 91

The medium to deep garnet colored 2009 Langoa Barton is scented of warm red and black plums, dried mulberries and blackcurrant cordial with touches of dried mint and new leather. Medium to full-bodied with a solid frame of grainy tannins and bold freshness, it has loads of red and black berry preserves layers on the long, savory finish.

by LP, Wine Advocate , 2019

Wine Enthusiast 93

A deceptively approachable wine. Its gorgeous fruits are right up front, their ripeness powered by a generous, complex texture. There is concentration, but it is surrounded by so much richness. It can almost be drunk now, but should age well.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2012

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 Médoc region. Chateau Langoa, an elegant house built in 1758, is the archetype of the Bordeaux style of the eighteenth century. Its architecture and harmonious proportions seduced (or charmed) Hugh who acquired it in 1821 and renamed "Chateau Langoa Barton".
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 Langoa Barton. Melanie Barton-Sartorius, oenologist and Anthony's granddaughter represents the tenth generation of Barton in Bordeaux.

Vinification

Wooden vats room with thermo-regulation system.
Alcoholic fermentation lasting 7 to 10 days with twice daily pumping over.
Maceration about 3 weeks.
Drawing off into the barrels lot by lot.