Description / Reviews
// 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 10% Cabernet-Franc
"This wine a promisingly powerful, generously built teenager. The top class oak is still present for the moment, with floral notes and a touch of acacia peeking through. Perfect balance, full and lush, rounded off with long, tasty tannins." - Chateau Langoa Barton, Winemaker
"A dark nose: tobacco, liquorice, potpourri and blackcurrants. Grippy and intense yet juicy, bright and weighty. Tannins fill the mouth with a half-chewy, half-mineral texture. Fruit is pristine. A lovely sense of clarity and precision, structured but not weighty. Full of fresh red berry elements and minty cola touches on the finish. A refined style, with lots of interest and drinkability. Cool and classic." - 96 Points, Georgina Hindle, Decanter
"The 2010 Langoa-Barton has a very serious complex and involving bouquet with blackberry, cedar, sage and light sous-bois aromas that are exquisitely defined. The oak here is seamlessly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with supple rounded tannins that frame its payload of black fruit laced with white pepper and cedar. It fans out brilliantly towards the finish. It is so velvety in texture that you could almost broach this now, but its substance and weight suggests that it deserves another few years in the cellar." - 95 Points, Neal Martin, Vinous
"Charred sticks, spice, red and black fruit, mineral stuff, menthol and subtle floral notes. Medium bodied, dense yet almost breezy feeling, coffee and blackberry flavours, plenty of tannin stuffed in, and a good finish that really fans out. Chew and roll. Perhaps a touch of gaminess, but in a good way." - 94 Points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
