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  • Country ranking ?

    1 558
  • Producer ranking ?

    53
  • Decanting time

    1h30min
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    pink meat, veal and lamb & as well as fish

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Deep garnet; concentrated cedar and tar nose, with hints of volatile acidity; very concentrated with chewy cassis and cedar flavors; short of its peak; promising.

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The Story

The Grand Vin is the product of exceptional terroirs from the former Léoville estate. These terroirs are located mainly in the Clos Léoville Las Cases, which you pass as you leave Saint- Julien village for Pauillac. They extend over nearly 60ha producing Cabernet Sauvignons and Cabernet Francs with a complex, polished expression and characteristics which are totally unique to the Grand Vin of Léoville du Marquis de Las Cases and have been wide...

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Wine Information

Spring was late in 1970. Following a lovely month of June, the summer was punctuated with timely showers, propitious for an excellent ripening.

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Written Notes

Intense ruby red colour. Classic claret nose of cassis, cedar, and smoke with hints of violets. The palate is restrained and little austere in style with firm tannins, good acidic backbone and dried fruitiness. Aftertaste is tight but savoury. Not a great wine but classy
  • 90p

1970 Leoville Las Cases - fine nose of red fruit, nice complexity and structure, smooth finish, peaked a decade or two ago. 88p.

  • 88p
Ruby, towards garnet rim. Superbly elegant nose, integrated, cassis, raw meat, tobacco, fine leather. Fresh acidity, needs a lot of time in the decanter, lively, lovely tannins, long and elegant finish. One of my best 70 Las Cases.
  • 95p
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St.Julien, Saint-Julien
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