Chateau Léoville-Barton - Saint-Julien - 2016 | 2ème Grand Cru Classé

Château Léoville Barton is a vineyard in the Saint-Julien appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. Château Léoville Barton is also the name of the red wine produced by this property. The wine produced here was classified as one of fifteen Deuxièmes Crus (Second Growths) in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.
Unlike many of its peers, Château Léoville Barton has no château building; the wines are made at Château Langoa-Barton with which it shares ownership. The château depicted on Léoville Barton's label is actually that of Château Langoa Barton.
On average, Chateau Leoville Barton releases close to 20,000 cases of Bordeaux wine per year. There is a second wine, La Reserve de Leoville Barton. In 2014, La Reserve de Leoville Barton was bottled with a beautiful, new label, that was modeled after the original, Art Deco styled label previously used for Leoville Barton.
Leoville Barton is a sturdy, structured Bordeaux wine with tannin that requires time to develop. Traditional, masculine and beefy in style, this property is popular with some collectors because of the reasonable prices the estate charged for their wines. Due to the high tannin levels and style of the wine, the best vintages often require decades of age, before drinking well.