Saint Julien

59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 12% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc. From the Cuvelier family who own Chateau Leoville Poyferre, this wine delivers a similarly elegant and profound perfume of...(read more)

The 2014 Moulin-Riche has simple red berry fruit mixed with cedar and earthy notes. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, light tannin with a dry and rather innocuous finish that does...(read more)

Tasted several times, Langoa undoubtedly has a mass of concentrated fruit and flavour. One one occasion the tannic mass seemed to take the upper hand, but at other tastings the characterful, rich...(read more)

Deep violet-laced crimson which coats the glass. Rich dry fruit, though with a sweet touch of vanilla and crème patissière to go with the tight cherry and blackcurrant. A nice consistency on the...(read more)

58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot, 6% Cabernet Franc. 13.7% Alc. To say I was confused by Poyferré is an understatement. At the Château it showed the usual dark purple-edged colour, ve...(read more)

Very intensely concentrated wine this year from Barton, lovely texture, if with a less smooth and velvety texture - here the tannins are wilder and the flavours full of layers and excitement. Hugely con...(read more)

82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot. In contrast to the Grand Puy Lacoste in the same 'stable', Ducru is sweet to taste, round and ripe, all of one piece, tannins fine but very present giving a fe...(read more)

The Bories have sorted out their succession so that Bruno and his sister have taken control of Ducru, while Xavier, who has been running Ducru, Haut Batailley and Grand Puy Lacoste, has retained control...(read more)

High 72% Cabernet gives this second wine firm, direct fruit with the natural rich smoothness seen in the grand vin. More elegant and precise than in the past.

Bold, solid and hearty claret to warm the cockles and wash down roast red meats or dark game. The second wine of the iconic Saint Julien estate of Chateau Leoville Barton.

The initial impression is of a very strong sweet oakiness - rather new world in style. But the volume is there underneath and the dense fruit character of the wine shrugs off this coating and pow...(read more)

Great effort here. A really good second wine from the Gruaud team. Silky, quite easy flow, but lovely matter to the textured fruit core. Quite a joyful wine that sits well in the mouth and delive...(read more)