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The 2015 Chateau Langoa Barton is a wine that overdelivers in the appellation. The 2015 Chateau Langoa Barton which is largely Cabernet Sauvignon yet includes 38% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc. Brought up in 60% new oak, it boasts a deep purple color and smokin’ good notes of caramelized cherries, crème de cassis, toasty oak, and graphite. This St-Julien wins is big, full-bodied, concentrated, and structured, with awesome purity of fruit as well as notable elegance. This Chateau Langoa Barton wine needs 3-4 years of bottle age and will keep for two to three decades.

95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points James Suckling
93 points Wine Spectator

The 2020 Chateau Larose de Gruaud has a lovely softness and texture to this wine with a medium to full body, plenty of fruit and fine velvety tannins. Elegant Saint-Julien wine yet driven with gentle power. This Chateau Larose de Gruaud wine has aromas of spice and flesh, full of raspberry, blueberry, blackcurrant pastille, fennel, hawthorn and liquorice.

This 2020 Chateau Larose de Gruaud wine has a Blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot.

96 points James Suckling
95 points Decanter
95 points Wine Spectator

The 2012 Chateau Latour Grand Cru Classé wine has a potent bouquet of blackberry, graphite and distinctive tertiary notes instead of more marine scents observed four years earlier. Initially, the palate of this Chateau Latour wine is slightly disjointed on the entry and displays a subtle herbal quality, plus hints of pencil shavings. This Chateau Latour Grand Vin Pauillac wine demands a few minutes to really coalesce and achieve the precision and pixelation that have been the hallmark of this Grand Vin in its youth. Layers of black fruit coat the mouth, and a bitter edge lends tension, particularly toward the very persistent finish.

The Chateau Latour 1er Grand Cru Classé wine will be by far the biggest release since Latour brought in the new system, as the 2012 has not been on the market before. It’s a good one to start with as this is a vintage where the drinking window is starting to come into view.

The 2012 Chateau Latour wine is a blend of 90.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9.6% Merlot and 0.2% Petit Verdot.

97 points Decanter
96 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
95 points Wine Spectator

The 2018 Chateau Le Boscq wine is an exceptional vintage for this property, owned by Dourthe Vignobleincredibly. This 2018 Chateau Le Boscq wine has deep garnet-purple colored. This St-Estèphe wine features expressive notes of baked blackcurrants, blackberry pie and stewed plums with wafts of Provence herbs, cigar box and black pepper. Full, concentrated and supported by firm, chewy tannins, it has soft acid and an herbal lift on the finish.

A vintage where St Estephe has soared makes this a smart buy. Such expressive juicy fruit, amazing power and definition, great balance and power. The finish long and floral and lots of iodine and sea spray. Complex, this punches way out of its league. The best ever.

The 2018 Chateau Le Boscq wine is a blend of 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot and was picked 29 September until 20 October.

91 points Wine Advocate-Parker
90 points Wine Enthusiast

A splendid showing, much stronger from bottle than it was from barrel, the 2010 Chateau Leoville Barton wine is one of the spectacular wines of the vintage. This Chateau Leoville Barton has inky purple to the rim, its huge tannin gives this wine real potential for 30-50 years of longevity. It is a classic, powerful Bordeaux made with no compromise. A superstar of the vintage, the wine has notes of pen ink and creme de cassis, good acidity, sweet, subtle oak, and massive extraction and concentration. I thought it was one of the most backward wines of the vintage two years ago, and nothing has changed in the ensuing upbringing of the wine in cask except that the wine now seems even richer, denser and fuller than I previously thought. The beautiful purity, symmetry, and huge finish of nearly a minute make this one of the all-time great classics from Leoville Barton. Anticipated maturity: 2028-2065+.

The Chateau Leoville Barton 2010 is one of the spectacular wines of the vintage. Inky purple to the rim, its huge tannin gives this wine real potential for 30-50 years of longevity. It is a classic, powerful Bordeaux made with no compromise. A superstar of the vintage, the wine has notes of pen ink and creme de cassis, good acidity, sweet, subtle oak, and massive extraction and concentration. I thought it was one of the most backward wines of the vintage two years ago, and nothing has changed in the ensuing upbringing of the wine in cask except that the wine now seems even richer, denser and fuller than I previously thought. The beautiful purity, symmetry, and huge finish of nearly a minute make this one of the all-time great classics from Leoville Barton.

The Chateau Leoville Barton 2014 is a wine of great elegance from Saint-Julien The 2nd Classified Growth Chateau Leoville Barton is a red wine produced in the Saint-Julien appellation. The vineyard is planted on hillsides composed of gravel from the Garonne on a bed of gravel-clay limestone. The wine is aged in oak barrels (60% are new) for 16-18 months. Chateau Leoville Barton 2012 is a blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon 15% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc. Chateau Leoville Barton 2012 develops aromas of white flowers black fruits with notes of candied violets. The wine has an unforgettably long finish in the mouth.

The 2014 Chateau Leoville Barton is a Cellar Selection, Top 100 Wines of 2017.

95 points Decanter
95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points James Suckling

The 2015 Chateau Leoville Barton wine has a deep garnet-purple colored. This Chateau Leoville Barton wine has everything you could want from a Left Bank Bordeaux wine it offers up notions of warm red currants, black raspberries and dark chocolate with wafts of cigar box, violets and bay leaves. This Saint-Julien wine is elegant, medium-bodied and sporting great freshness, the taut, tightly wound palate of intense red fruits and floral accents is well-framed with firm, grainy tannins, finishing on a lingering mineral note. One of the deepest, richest and darkest of the St-Juliens in 2015.  This 2015 Chateau Leoville Barton Grand Cru Classé wine is a Cellar Selection.

The 2015 Chateau Leoville Barton wine is a blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon and 14% Merlot, brought up in 60% new French oak.

97 points Wine Enthusiast
96 points James Suckling
95 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2016 Chateau Leoville Barton wine has a deep purple-colored and a classic Saint-Julien with its pure crème de cassis, graphite, liquid rock, and essence of lead pencil shavings. This 2016 Chateau Leoville Barton wine is full-bodied, concentrated, and backward, with bright acidity and ripe yet certainly present and building tannins. This old-school, classic Leoville Barton has a fine thread of acidity keeping the wine focused and fresh. It’s a beauty, but mostly potential at this point, although it does have beautiful fruit. Savvy readers will hide bottles at the back of their cellar, since this is one of the finest wines from the estate in recent years. Drink 2022-2040.

97 points James Suckling
97 points Wine Spectator
96 points Decanter

The 2018 Chateau Leoville Barton is a gorgeous exotic wine. Crème de cassis, lavender, menthol, licorice and cloves race out of the glass. This 2018 Chateau Leoville Barton wine marries the natural opulence of the year with a pretty classic sense of structure, making for one of the more compelling wines of the year. This 2018 Chateau Léoville-Barton wine lives up to its en primeur promise.

This estate has been on fire in recent vintages, and the 2018 Château Léoville Barton is up there with the best of them. The Chateau Leoville Barton wine is based on 82% Cabernet Sauvignon and 18% Merlot that was brought up in 60% new French oak, this classic, flawlessly balanced, straight-up awesome Saint-Julien has loads of cassis and mulberry fruits as well as notes of freshly sharpened pencils, leafy tobacco, chocolate, and earth.

97 points James Suckling
97 points Wine Enthusiast
97 points Wine Spectator

The 2014 Chateau Leoville Las Cases is a Cellar Selection wine. This St-Julien wine has all the elements in place to produce a wine that will last for years. This Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is powerful fruit, rich tannins and a structure that is built to last. This 2014 vintage is an elegant wine, an exceptional Leoville Las Cases that equals some of the Premier Crus.

This 2014 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine has a medium-bodied with wondrous purity and tension, the acidity beautifully poised and imparting the palpable sense of energy from start to finish. Where it really excels is on the finish. This 2014 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine has an exquisite structure, very complex with enormous persistence. This Chateau Leoville Las Cases is one of the best Left Bank 2014.

Picked between 30 September and 13 October over 12 days. This 2014 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is a blend of mostly Cabernet Sauvignon, with Cabernet Franc and Merlot, cropped at 33 hectoliters per hectare and matured in 85% new oak. There is 6.8% vin de presse this year.

98 points James Suckling
97 points Wine Enthusiast
96 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2015 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is simply captivating. Sumptuous, racy and explosive in the glass, the 2015 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is endowed with tremendous energy from start to finish. This Saint-Julien wine has an exotic melange of crème de cassis, graphite, menthol and licorice bursts onto the palate as the 2015 shows off its alluring personality. This 2015 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is spectacularly rich, dense and full-throttle, with huge tannins that are nearly buried underneath the fruit, the 2015 is an unusual Las Cases. It is also breathtakingly beautiful.
Drink in 2022.

The 2015 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine has the highest Cabernet contents in recent years, 85% and 9% of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc respectively, partly because some of the old Merlot vines were blended into the deuxième vin. Picked between 22 September and 9 October, a total of 15 days picking, it will be matured in 85% new oak. The alcohol level is 13.8%, higher than 2010 for example. Jean-Hubert Delon has crafted an extremely pure and tensile bouquet, almost pixelated with blackberry, briary, slate and oyster shell aromas that blossom in the glass.

99 points Wine Enthusiast
98 points James Suckling
97 points Decanter

The 2017 Chateau Leoville Poyferre wine has a very well defined bouquet with irresistible cranberry and crushed strawberry aromas, a lighter and more refined take on Poyferré with more mineralité than many recent vintages. This 2017 Chateau Leoville Poyferre wine has a medium-bodied with slightly grainy tannin, a fine line of acidity, more black fruit than red intermixed with tar, smoke and cracked black pepper. There is just a touch of grittiness towards the finish but otherwise this is a wonderful Leoville Poyferre with plenty of character. A ravishing Saint-Julien, the Léoville-Poyferré is also very clearly one of the wines of the vintage on the Left Bank. Drink 2022-2045.

The 2017 Chateau Leoville Poyferre wine has a blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, the 2017 Chateau Leoville-Poyferre saw malolactic in barrels and spent 18 months in 80% new French oak.

95 points Decanter
95 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
94 points James Suckling

The 2012 Léoville-Las-Cases offers lovely up front voluptuousness, sweet red cherry, dried flowers and pipe tobacco scents meld into a translucent, mid-weight Las Cases that should drink relatively early by this wine’s standard. The silky finish only adds to the wine’s considerable early appeal. The blend is 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot and 11% Cabernet Franc.

The 2018 Chateau Les Ormes De Pez wine has a distinctive harmonious spicy character, Chateau Ormes de Pez is true to its terroir. Wine lovers appreciate its opulence, elegance and well-rounded structure. Its powerful, rich and excellent tannic backbone allows graceful ageing. This has the luxurious kick of the Lynch Bages stable and is brilliant value for this level of quality.

Chateau Ormes de Pez belongs to the Médoc landscape since the 18th century. Located West of Saint-Estèphe and bordering the hamlet of Pez, the estate owes its name to a magnificent grove of elm trees, which no longer exists today. Château Ormes de Pez is the second property – after Château Lynch-Bages – acquired by the Cazes family in 1939.

The 2018 Chateau Les Ormes De Pez is mostly Merlot blended with 50% Merlot, 41% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot and aging in 45% new barriques.

94 points James Suckling
93 points Decanter
92 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2015 Chateau Lilian Ladouys wine is a very linear and refined red with currant and lemon aromas and flavors. This Lilian Ladouys wine has medium to full body, fine tannins and a bright finish. This Chateau Lilian Ladouys wine shows focus and beauty. This 2015 Chateau Lilian Ladouys is elegant and long. The nose dark, earthy and redolent of dark flowers. The palate offers lovely fresh, mineral grip.

This 2015 Chateau Lilian Ladouys wine has a blend of 62% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon and the balance Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. This 2015 Chateau Lilian Ladouys is a serious Saint-Estephe that shines in a vintage which was more difficult for the northern portions of the Medoc.

92 points James Suckling
91 points Wine Enthusiast