The Bartons buy another château

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[Now with Gavin's photographs]

Gavin Quinney writes:

It has been a few years since the Barton family of Château Langoa Barton bought a château. Not since the 1820s, in fact, when Hugh Barton, having first acquired Langoa in 1821, purchased in 1826 the part of the Léoville estate that would later become Château Léoville Barton. Both Langoa and Léoville were included in the famous 1855 classification and, along with Château Mouton Rothschild, are the only châteaux since 1855 to remain under the same family ownership. Anthony Barton and his daughter Lilian
(pictured left) run the two St-Julien estates today.

So...