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2006 Château Léoville Barton, St Julien, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (78%), Merlot (20%), Cabernet Franc (2%)
Ready - mature (Drink 2012 - 2033)
Jeb Dunnuck
94/100
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
94/100
Neal Martin
92/100
Jane Anson
92/100
Stephen Tanzer
92/100
Jancis Robinson MW
17/20
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2006 Château Léoville Barton, St Julien, Bordeaux

Description

From one of my favourite estates in Saint-Julien, the 2006 Château Léoville Barton is now fully mature (yet certainly youthful) and has a complex, layered profile that includes ample red and black fruits as well as perfumed notes of leafy herbs, cedar pencil, tobacco, and hints of crushed stone. Medium to full-bodied, nicely balanced, and textured, it has the more focused, straight, classic style of this château front and centre, with integrated yet still present tannins, beautiful overall balance, and a great finish. A classy, layered, complex textbook, Bordeaux, will continue drinking nicely for another two decades, with a gradual decline after that.

Drink 2023 - 2043

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2006
Alcohol % 12.5%
Maturity Ready - mature (2012 - 2033)
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (78%), Merlot (20%), Cabernet Franc (2%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Léoville Barton

Critics reviews

Jeb Dunnuck 94/100
From one of my favorite estates in Saint-Julien, the 2006 Château Léoville Barton is now fully mature (yet certainly youthful) and has a complex, layered profile that includes ample red and black fruits as well as perfumed notes of leafy herbs, cedar pencil, tobacco, and hints of crushed stone. Medium to full-bodied, nicely balanced, and textured, it has the more focused, straight, classic style of this château front and center, with integrated yet still present tannins, beautiful overall balance, and a great finish. A classy, layered, complex, textbook Bordeaux, it's going to continue drinking nicely for another two decades, with a gradual decline after that.
Drink 2023 - 2043
Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2023)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 94/100
The 2006 Leoville Barton has a deep brick color. It skips out of the glass with cheery, carefree notes of black cherry compote, redcurrant jelly, and cassis, followed by wafts of dried roses, cinnamon toast, and crushed stones. The light to medium-bodied palate has a rock-solid structure of chewy tannins and just enough freshness to support the generous fruit, finishing long and earthy.
Drink 2023 - 2033
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, TheWineIndependent.com (Dec 2023)
Neal Martin 92/100
Tasted at Bordeaux Index's annual 10-Year On tasting in London. The 2006 Château Léoville-Barton has a surprisingly rich and opulent bouquet at first, although it calms down with aeration, offering crushed violet and black cherry scents, reminiscent of a fine Margaux. The palate is medium-bodied with a gentle grip in the mouth. Here the class begins to appear with fine balance and poise, but like the Langoa, it lacquers the mouth with tannins and feels very backward, surprising given the vintage. Cellar this for another decade, folks. Tasted January 2016.
Drink 2025 - 2045
Neal Martin, Wine Advocate (May 2016)
Jane Anson 92/100
This wine has spent much of the last 10 years closed up and is just starting to come round, loosening the shackles of its tannins. Now reaching the next phase of its life, I like the unloosening of this previously tightly knit structure, and the dark heft of the cassis and bilberry fruit. The mid-palate is full of purpose with a great kick on the finish. Lovely potential.
Drink 2018 - 2035
Jane Anson, Decanter.com (Oct 2017)
Stephen Tanzer 92/100

Bright ruby-red. Deeply pitched aromas of blackcurrant, mocha, licorice, minerals and cedary oak, with a whiff of truffle. Smooth, sexy and sweet, with harmonious acidity giving a light touch to the dark fruit, mineral and chocolate flavors. Perhaps best today on the very long aftertaste, which features serious but ripe tannins and a chocolatey ripeness. As at a number of other top properties in the northern Medoc, I find much more minerality in the 2006 than I do in the young 2007.
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com (May 2008)
Jancis Robinson MW 17/20
Tasted blind. Dark crimson. Very dense and pungent. A Léoville? Real intensity.
Drink 2018 - 2035
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Apr 2016)

About this wine

Saint-Julien

Saint-Julien

St Julien is the smallest of the ‘Big Four’ Médoc communes although, without any First Growths, it is recognised to be the most consistent of the main communes with many châteaux turning out impressive wines year after year. The wines can be judged as much by texture as flavour, and there is a sleek, wholesome character to the best. At their very finest they combine Margaux’s elegance and refinement with Pauillac’s power and substance.
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