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.

The alliance between Borough Wines and Damien Barton-Sartorius is unexpected, to say the least. The former started up 20 years ago as an indie retailer in London’s Borough Market, decanting wine ...

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 ...

But when someone waves a glass of silly-money-wine in front of me, frankly, it would be rude to say no. The bottle in question was a Chateau Leoville Barton 1996 - one of the great Bordeaux wines ...

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