Ranked #15 of 15 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Cabernet Franc from St-Julien
94/100
4.5 Stars
Huon Hooke
Deep, brooding, serious Medoc aroma, with good cabernet character. It's a bit closed and serious, but is deep and powerful with superb flavour, structure and length. A powerful, direct wine with very good line and length. It just needs time.
Tasted: 11/03/2014
Drink: 2020 to 2045
93 Points Robert Parker
Another wine showing better from bottle than it did from barrel, the 2010 Langoa Barton has the typical structured, dense style, but just as I thought earlier on, it is a much softer and more developed wine than one ordinarily expects from proprietor Anthony Barton. It is full-bodied and impressively endowed with subtle oak, rich cassis fruit and notes of new saddle leather, forest floor, cedar wood and spice box. Full, authoritative and dense, this wine should be at its best between 2018 and 2035.
Source: Robert Parker (Robert Parker Wine Advocate) by Robert M. Parker, Jr. February, 2013