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  • Country ranking ?

    1 325
  • Producer ranking ?

    39
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

In recent years, several vineyard plots in the Clos LÉOVILLE LAS CASES were uprooted and replanted, and these are now coming into production. To preserve the quality level of the Grand Vin, Château LÉOVILLE LAS CASES therefore decided it would create a second wine, from the 2007 vintage

The Petit Lion shares the philosophy of its two elder siblings; it is vinifi ed and aged in order to preserve its fresh, ripe fruit fl avour throughout its ...

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Medium-deep colour. Fresh blackcurrant pastille marzipan aromas. Very sturdy wine with blackcurrant blackberry graphite notes and fine sinewy/ bittersweet tannins. Chinotto notes at the finish. 57% merlot, 40% cabernet sauvignon, 3% cabernet franc. Maturation in 40% new French oak. 13.27% alc

  • 92p

Dark purple colour with violet hue and almost black core. Closed character, opening up slowly, ripe fruit and hints of pencil shavings. On the palate well structured with firm yet ripe tannins, juicy and sweet berries in the finish, fine minerality. 

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Origin

St.Julien, Saint-Julien

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Clos du Marquis

Léoville-Las Cases

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