Next up on my 2014 Bordeaux barrel tasting tour is Château Léoville Barton. This was my first stop at the St.-Julien estate since 2011 (I try to see different châteaus on every visit—Bordeaux is a big ...

Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

Lilian Sartorius Barton is the ninth generation of the Barton family to live and work in Bordeaux. The family relocated there in 1725, but have always maintained a close connection with Ireland.

According to Woods, “the Barton family purchased numerous vineyards, which would later become an immense estate, eventually divided into the famous Leoville Barton itself and the equally ...

Green Spot Château Léoville Barton ($100) and Midleton Dair Ghaelach ($300). The former is matured in ex-Oloroso sherry and ex-Bourbon barrels before being transferred to ex-Bordeaux wine casks.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Anthony Barton of Chx Langoa Barton and Léoville Barton was buried in the vines of St-Julien last month ...

Anthony Barton, who has died aged 91, was a descendant of one of the so-called “wine geese” – Irish merchants who put down roots in France in the late 17th and early 18th centuries – and ...

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