Château Langoa Barton, 3ème Cru Classé, St Julien, 2024
Langoa Barton 2024 offers an inviting bouquet of bright cherries and peonies. Lovely, silky, fresh fruit graces the palate, revealing flavours of sour cherry, wild raspberry and just-ripe plum, then mineral notes of flint and graphite and a whisper of lilac and cedar. A bright, crisp citrus element provides a refreshing lift. The finish is marked by smooth, ripe tannins laced with cool berries. Sure to be one of the best value Classified Growths of 2024.
critic reviews
Deep garnet-purple colored. Needs a little swirling to tempt out notes of red currant jelly and juicy strawberries, giving way to suggestions of dried sage, charcoal, and lavender. Light-bodied, the palate has a crisp backbone and lightly chewy tannins with herbs laced red berry flavors and a chalky finish.
The 2024 Langoa Barton was picked from September 29 to October 5 and matured in 60% new oak. This is quite closed on the nose—indeed, General Manager Damien Barton had forewarned that for whatever reason, the samples had aromatically clammed up on a sunny day! The palate is medium-bodied with black plummy fruit, touches of graphite and cracked black pepper and nice grip on the mid-palate. The 2024 is not as complex as, say, the 2022, but it has an appealing, linear finish.
Floral peony and lilac aromatics on the Langoa, and the fruit character keeps things finessed and soft - think red cherry, cherry pit, tobacco, black tea, thoroughly charming, just a little short on the finished compared to the exceptional 2022 or 2023 vintages. The difference in the blends between the two Barton St Julien wines is significant this year, with just over 50% here of Cabernet Sauvignon compared to over 90% in Léoville. Harvest 24 September to 5 October. 60% new oak, 30hl/h yield.
The 2024 Langoa Barton is showing beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet blackberries and plums mingled with notions of licorice, pencil shavings and lilac. Medium to full-bodied, with lively acids and good depth and density, it's pure and refined. This is a blend of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc, picked between 24 September and 5 October.