Château Langoa-Barton
The Château Langoa-Barton is one of the famous wineries of Bordeaux . Since the classification of 1855 , the winery has been classified as Troisième Grand Cru Classé and thus on the third highest level of the classifications.
It is located in Saint-Julien, in the immediate vicinity of the town of Pauillac , on the "Route du Vin", the D2 departmental road.
The wine from Langoa Barton and from the neighboring Château Léoville-Barton is aged in the Langoa cellar, strictly maintaining the separation of the differently classified plants. Both estates are owned by the Irish-born wine merchant family Barton.
Langoa is relatively small at 15 hectares . 70% with the grape variety Cabernet Sauvignon , 20% Merlot and 10% with Cabernet Franc planted.
The best wine from younger years is that of 2000, which the wine critic Robert Parker rated with 91 Parker points . Older vintages already received higher ratings (1948 with 93 PP). Langoa wines are rarely found on the market.
history
The Barton family's winemaking history can be traced back to 1725. The young Irishman Thomas Barton (born December 21, 1694 in Drunkeeran near Enniskillen in County Fermanagh ; died October 18, 1780) moved with his family to the Bordeaux area and founded a wine trade. In particular, he supplied the Dutch and Irish markets. In 1728 he was already exporting 2,700 barrels of wine, and in 1745 he was already the most important wine merchant in Bordeaux. His business success enabled Barton, known as French Tom , to acquire his own winery, Château Le Bosq in Saint-Estèphe .
His grandson Hugh Barton (1766-1854) made the trade more dynamic by teaming up with the French shipowner Daniel Guestier. Guestier operated the ship Le Grand Nancy , which, due to its speed , was able to break through the English sea blockade off the French coast. As a result, the trading house Barton & Guestier was able to continue trading in wine almost unaffected.
During the French Revolution, Hugh Barton was forced to leave the country for security reasons after a brief prison term in 1793; his partner Guestier ran the business alone at times. After Barton's return, he bought Château Langoa-Barton in 1821; only five years later he acquired part of the Léoville estate and founded Château Léoville-Barton .
literature
- Charles Cocks, Edouard Féret, Bruno Boidron: Bordeaux et ses vins . 18th edition. Èdition Féret et Fils, Bordeaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-35156-013-6 .
- Horst Dippel : The wine lexicon . 3. Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-13826-4 .
- Robert Parker : Parker's Wine Guide (= Collection Rolf Heyne ). Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-16305-2 .