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)

71% Cabernet Sauvignon 25% Merlot 4% Cabernet Franc This second wine of Chateau Léoville Barton comes from young vines and plots that have not reached the high level of requirement to enter in th...(read more)

Good wholesome aromatic fruit. Delicacy and precision, red fruit with high-toned red currant, then a bit more depth. There's really a very attractive richness here. A little spice. Goes on well.

83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot. A very different grape mix to its stablemate Gloria, and immediately a much more imposing and authoritative style. Ruby to black at the centre, rich velvety fe...(read more)

70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23.5% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, 2.5% Cabernet Franc. Very 'sauvignonny' Cabernet Sauvignon - blackberry leaf and elderberry, real freshness and edge, which in turn makes it...(read more)

Not staggeringly deep in colour, but as usual this has an indefinably classy royal purple aspect. The nose is warm with the ripeness of black fruit and a deep cedary complexity. Sophisticated com...(read more)

Like the Fiefs, Cabernet dominates. Classic, tight and straight, but with a richness of texture and velvety feel, and still a considerable freshness of fruit. Really excellent, and the spice of wood that the carefull...(read more)

The 1996 Leoville Barton appears more youthful than the 1996 Langoa Barton in the glass with a healthy deep garnet core. The aromatics unfurl gracefully in the glass revealing briary, wild hedgerow, black truffle...(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)

85% Cabernet Sauvignon this year. A good Cabernet year, very ripe. Gorgeously intense dark fruit on the nose. Spicy and pure and dark fruited. Paper-fine tannins, great finesse and tenderness. We...(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)