Quite a classic wine for this hot and dry year. Excellent depth but also freshness, with convincing ripeness and a very long finish. Just medium to full body, with gritty tannins at the end. The fruit sweetness here is restrained. 60% new oak. Drink or hold.
96 points, Zekun Shuai, James Suckling (Apr 2025)
The 2022 Langoa Barton has turned out superbly in bottle. Offering up aromas of cassis, blackberries, pencil shavings and violets, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, with velvety tannins, lively fruit and a long, penetrating finish. Seamless, integrated and intense, Langoa's more morcellated vineyards means that this estate has, if anything, gained even more from the Barton family's new vat room than its big brother Léoville Barton, as each parcel can now be fermented separately, optimizing its potential. This is the best young Langoa Barton I can remember tasting.
95 points, William Kelley, Wine Advocate (Mar 2025)
Possibly the finest vintage I've tasted from this château, the 2022 Château Langoa Barton has a gorgeous perfume of red and black fruits intermixed with smoky tobacco, fresh flowers, and cedar. I love its overall balance, and it's medium to full-bodied, has a pure, layered mouthfeel, and present yet sweet, polished tannins. I love it even today, yet it deserves 4-6 years of bottle age and will cruise in cold cellars over the following two decades or more.
95 points, Jeb Dunnuck (Feb 2025)
This is a suave rendering of the vintage, offering a vivid beam of boysenberry and blackberry puree that's gently succulent and generous in feel but stays racy and defined by an underlying iron note. Violet, ink and anise accents are infused throughout, lending brightness and range through the pure finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2027 through 2042. 5,500 cases made.
95 points, James Molesworth, Wine Spectator (May 2025)
The blend is 56.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot and 2.5% Cabernet Franc, and the élevage was in 60% new oak. Lots of matchsticky cedar and leathery fruit on the nose of this 2022 from Langoa, with a rather charming sense of sandy mineral evolution when tasted with the UGCB, showing more focused and pure at the château, with very fine and dark fruit, currant and rose petal scents, as well as dark notes of truffle, vanilla pod and crushed oyster shell. The palate is delightful in its delineation and freshness though, with lots of polished and saline dark fruits, with a delicious salted edge giving them freshness, and a great harmony of tannin and flavour. This is very impressive;after a low-key start on the first tasting, the second and third encounters clearly communicate its cellaring potential, which is considerable. Such harmony and ripeness of structure here, in an impressive St Julien. The alcohol on the label is 14%. Tasted three times.
95 points, Chris Kissack, Wine Independent (Jun 2025)
A rich nose full of chocolate, cherries, espresso and perfume. Smooth and supple, this is full of juicy berry fruit - crystalline and pure - with a chalky mouthfeel. I love the touches of wet stone, cool cola, fresh mint and blueberries. Feels extremely finessed and totally moreish. It's a bit richer than some in terms of tannins, they're more crushed velvet in texture giving a certain thickness to the palate and it really works. Lively with great energy and focus. A lovely wine.
95 points, Georgina Hindle, Decanter (Jan 2025)
The 2022 Langoa Barton has a wonderful bouquet that has really blossomed since I tasted it from barrel. There is still a trait of Margaux thanks to its wilted violet element, but there may be more graphite and tobacco tones now the wine is in bottle. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-boned tannins and a precise, sensual finish. It's fresh and definitely a more elegant Langoa compared to recent vintages. Bon vin.
94 points, Neal Martin, Vinous (Feb 2025)
The last few years have seen Langoa, in classically understated Barton way, turning into a barnstormer, with the value that was once reserved for Léoville. It's great in 2022, with its slightly cooler terroir really coming into its own. Luscious black cherry, sandalwood, campfire, crayon, crushed rocks, this is stuff, almost ready to go but will clearly deliver for decades.
94 points, Jane Anson (Mar 2025)
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