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• Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 90 points

  January 27, 2024 - Liquorice and cigar box on the nose; some green pepper and tomato leaf to follow. Palate is long and cool fruited. With air some leatheriness develops, possibly something a little lactic too. A little shorter than other bottles which were from a different case.

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• WojteG Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 2, 2024 - I know that the year 2001 wasn't so good vintage in St. Julian, but on the other hand because of that I could afford to buy this 3rd Growth Classé wine. Let's make it simple and straight. With each sip the wine is fruitier, fuller, more ripe. The texture is thicker, the balance is much better. But let's start from incredible smell. Foreground - tobacco and leather. Background - black cherry and blackcurrant. That's it? Well, basically, from my limited wine experience - yes. But symmetry, balance and clarity are amazing. The smell is addictive, mesmerizing, and narcotics.
  How about the taste?
  Black berry, blackcurrant, red currant. Long finish with spice, red currant, red cherry, milk chocolate (!). Nice acidity and tannins.
  The third glass and the wine has the same aromas and flavors, but much, much stronger!
  And the finish is longer.
  CS - 70%
  M- 20%
  CF - 10%
  12.5% ABV!
  2001 in St. Julien was a classical vintage, more tannic than 2000 and with a long cellaring capacity.
  88 points according to the WA Vintage Guide.
  
  Vinous - 93
  WA - 93
  WS - 92
  WE - 92
  JS - 92
  Jeff Leve - 91
  W&S - 90

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• lozatron Likes this wine:

  August 23, 2023 - Classic pencil box and cassis - a lovely wine but the funk over the top really pulls it back. Pretty sure this is brett - this wine was in a pretty warm flat for the past 9 months, starting me wondering about the finishing temperature for these older wines...

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• jaggeral1 wrote: 93 points

  June 19, 2023 - A really good showing today. Big classic nose, blackcurrant, pastille, touch of cassis, graphite. Quite full bodied in the mouth, still elegant with the graphite keeping all in check. Long Cabernet finish with still some grip on show. Classic, lovely with Lamb. I think still a couple more years to come here (having rested in my cold cellar 15 years) then along plateau ahead.

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• Burgundywine Likes this wine:

  December 24, 2022 - Texbook mature claret, all pencil shavings, cassis, red fruits. Soft tannins, very long. Drinking perfectly now.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type Red
• Producer Château Langoa Barton
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation St. Julien
• UPC Codes 031259012414, 0400009305036, 400004707651, 7070292740413

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• Pending Delivery 17 (1%)
• In Cellars 1,191 (51%)
• Consumed 1,119 (48%)

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