Château Langoa Barton - St.-Julien 2020 (750ml)
Price: $59.00
| Producer | Château Langoa Barton |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | St.-Julien |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 1005741 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 97 Points
This is very linear and structured with blackcurrant pine-needle graphite and cedar aromas and flavors. Intense. Full-bodied chalky and intense. Superb. Best of the trilogy. Drink after 2027.
Jeb Dunnuck: 95 Points
Tasted on multiple occasions the 2020 Château Langoa Barton comes from a mix of different sites in Saint-Julien which makes it a great representation of the vintage and appellation. The blend is 53.5% Cabernet Sauvignon 38% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc. It exhibits a deep ruby/purple hue to go with a beautiful bouquet of red and black cherries currants leafy tobacco and cedar pencil with a touch of damp earth that emerges with time in the glass. Medium to full-bodied balanced and elegant on the palate it has plenty of mid-palate depth and richness velvety tannins and a great finish. This plush up-front expansive wonderfully textured Saint-Julien will benefit from just a few years of bottle age and cruise for two decades. It's the finest example from this château I've tasted. Bravo!
Wine Advocate: 94 Points
The 2020 Langoa Barton has turned out superbly in bottle offering up generous aromas of black cherries crème de cassis licorice and pencil shavings deftly framed by classy new oak. Medium to full-bodied deep and fleshy its concentrated core of ripe but vibrant fruit is framed by sweet powdery tannins and lively acids. Beautifully balanced it's somewhat more open out of the gates than the excellent 2019 and will offer an especially broad drinking window.
Vinous: 93 Points
The 2020 Langoa Barton has quite a plush violet-tinged bouquet higher-toned than the Léoville Barton though without the same unerring complexity. This just wants to go out and have fun. The palate has an irresistible rondeur velvety smooth with black plum hints of cassis and a sweet and persistent finish. Joyful.
jdWine Spectator: 93 Points
Solidly built with a bright violet note leading the way followed by cassis and blackberry flavors that are vivid and defined. Shows apple wood and bramble notes that add a grippy juicy feel to the finish while an iron note adds cut and drive. Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2026 through 2036. 6400 cases made.
Jane Anson: 93 Points
Restrained and serious in keeping with the character of the vintage. Lovely silky tannins unrolls slowly with plenty of black fruits mint leaf and pencil lead this is delicous restrained power building on their success of recent vintages. 34hl/ha yield harvest September 14 to 28.
Decanter: 92 Points
Wood aspects on the nose: vanilla cinnamon toast and caramel. Ripe but clean and tight there?s depth and intensity to the fruit which is focused and narrow giving a sleek but tense frame and drive of flavours. There is underlying acidity and a juiciness that comes through and this has a long persistent flavour but it does remain quite narrow. Nicely worked and restrained. It grows more and more but the wood is still quite present and needs to settle. Just feels a little dry tight high-toned and spicy which is slightly off-putting.
The Wine Independent: 92 Points
Medium to deep garnet-purple in color the 2020 Langoa Barton comes bounding out of the glass with eager-to-please notes of kirsch juicy blueberries and cassis plus wafts of fallen leaves underbrush and allspice. The medium-bodied palate is plush and juicy with open-knit black fruits and plenty of freshness finishing with a spicy kick. It's fabulously delicious right now but give it another couple of years to fully integrate and then drink it over the next 20 years+.
