{"product_id":"chateau-leoville-barton-saint-julien-1996","title":"Chateau Leoville-Barton, Saint-Julien, 1996","description":"Nearly three decades on, this is a chance to pour a Saint-Julien Second Growth with the kind of bottle age most of us never have the patience (or the cellar space) to give it ourselves. Léoville Barton was ranked a Second Classified Growth in 1855, and the same family has held it the whole way through. Hugh Barton bought 50 hectares of Saint-Julien vines in 1826. He was the grandson of Thomas Barton, the Irishman who settled in Bordeaux in 1722 and set up as a wine merchant. Anthony Barton later brought the estate international recognition, and his daughter Lilian and her two children, the 10th generation, run it today. The vineyard sits on slopes of Garonne gravel facing the Gironde, over a clayey gravel subsoil, and it is ploughed the traditional way with no herbicide. That is classic Médoc ground for Cabernet-led wine with staying power. A house built on serious, traditional claret is best seen with some age on it, and this bottle has plenty. Stand it up a day ahead and decant gently to leave any sediment behind.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047938621497,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-65-1\/14","price":199.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Leoville-Barton-Saint-Julien-1996-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696539","url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/products\/chateau-leoville-barton-saint-julien-1996","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}