Château Léoville Barton Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé)

Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
Cabernet Franc

Tracked vintages: 74
Community notes: 8,375
Merchant offers: 786

What we know about this wine

Critics: 96/ 1002025 vintage
Real drinkers: 92/ 1008,375 notes, every vintage
Market price: £56per 75 cl2025 vintage · 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, May 2026
Drinking window: 2028–2060hold2024 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.

Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet. Style: Saint-Julien red.

Body4.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin5.0 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.0 / 5: DrySweet

Earth · graphite
Oak · cedar, cigar box, dark chocolate
Black fruit · blackcurrant, cassis

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.

Realised in-bond trades£23–£171Shop asks£99–£190GBP per 75 cl · 42 priced vintages

1973One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2025

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Holdits window has not opened
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2022; 96 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2019; drinking, window 2024–2069
Lowest price: 1973; £23 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé) monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 10 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé) monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2025	£56	95.8	—	per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, May 2026
2024	£52	93.2	No	per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, May 2025
2023	£53	95.5	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
2022	£49	96.4	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2021	£39	93.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
2020	£99	95.5	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2019	£69	96.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6000 ml in-bond trade, April 2025
2018	£53	95.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2017	£45	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, June 2026
2016	£74	95.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2015	£58	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2014	£59	93.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023
2013	£48	88	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
2012	£56	92.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2011	£68	91.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
2010	£94	94.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2009	£117	95.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2008	£59	92.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2007	£60	91.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
2006	£55	92.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2005	£106	94.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2004	£63	91.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, April 2025
2003	£109	94.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, July 2022
2002	£56	91.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
2001	£89	92.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
2000	£101	94.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025
1999	£76	89.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2019
1998	£79	90.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2018
1996	£119	91.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
1995	£105	91.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
1994	£114	90	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, October 2018
1993	£71	88	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2018
1991	£62	87	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2016
1990	£158	93.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
1989	£71	92	Yes	per 75cl, from a 11-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
1988	£144	90	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
1986	£139	90.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
1985	£166	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1982	£171	90.8	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
1981	£52	84	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
1978	£190	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1973	£23	—	—	per 75cl, from a 2-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022

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