Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes The saturated ruby/plum-tinged 2002 reveals a tight but promising nose of underbrush, new saddle leather, damp earth, black currants and cherries. It is a strongly structured, potent effort with medium to full body, and impressive purity, but loads of tannin presented in a frightfully backward style. Anticipated maturity:… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes Tobacco, spice box, cedar, and black currants offer a perfumed, complex introduction to this structured, beefy, muscular St.-Julien. As usual, a battle between the fruit and structure is being waged in this 2001, which appears to be a bit broader and more charming than most young Langoa Bartons.… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 91 Tasting Notes Showing far more impressively from bottle than it ever did from cask, this wine has turned out to be an outstanding Langoa Barton. It reveals a deep, saturated purple color and an expansive, sweet nose of earthy black currants, plum, and melted licorice. Structured, dense, chewy, with full… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes This is a big, tannic, muscular effort for the vintage. Langoa Barton’s 1999 is atypically backward and stubborn. However, there is attractive cassis/currant fruit under all the tannin. The question is, will the tannin subside sufficiently for the fruit to fully emerge? Anticipated maturity: 2006-2015.(Wine Advocate #140 Apr… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 89 Tasting Notes A dense ruby/purple color as well as a muscular, ageworthy personality are found in this no BS sort of wine. It possesses loads of body, impressive concentration, and firm tannin in the finish. However, it is a wine for those who are able to defer their gratification as… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 84 Tasting Notes Not a top-notch effort, Langoa Barton’s medium ruby-colored 1997 exhibits sweet, herb-tinged, berry, and currant aromas, spicy, cedary, medium-bodied flavors, low acidity, and a pleasant but undistinguished finish. Drink it over the next 7-8 years.(Wine Advocate #128 Apr 2000) By Robert Parker
Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes I consistently found this 1996 to be a hard wine. Despite its deep ruby/purple color, it is monolithic, with notes of earth and black currant fruit submerged beneath a tannic structure. Although medium-bodied, with some weight and extract, the wine is ferociously hard and backward. Give it 3-5… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes The 1995 Langoa-Barton has been perplexing to evaluate. It is woody, monolithic, and exceptionally tannic without the fruit and flesh necessary to provide equilibrium. There are some positive components – a saturated dark ruby/purple color, hints of ripe fruit, and pure, clean flavors – but the wine’s angularity/austerity… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 89+ Tasting Notes The dark ruby/purple-hued 2008 reveals an angular, austere personality along with medium to full-bodied, deep, concentrated fruit. An unusually backward and highly tannic 2008, it will benefit from 3-4 years of cellaring and should keep for 20 years. It is a very good wine, but it is not… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes An outstanding effort, the seductive, plump, broadly flavored, dense purple-colored 2007 Lagrange boasts sweet creme de cassis, camphor, and subtle spicy oak notes. Generously endowed and medium to full-bodied, it is ideal for drinking over the next 10-12 years.(Wine Advocate #188 Apr 2010) By Robert Parker