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Château Langoa Barton 2010, St Julien #Low Stock and one rarely gets the79. 95 per bottle "The 2010 Langoa Barton has a very serious complex and involving bouquet with blackberry, cedar, sage and light sous bois aromas that are exquisitely defined. The oak here is seamlessly integrated. The palate is medium bodied with supple rounded tannins that frame its payload of black fruit laced with white pepper and cedar. It fans out brilliantly towards the finish. It is so velvety in texture that you could almost broach this now,