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    1 012
  • Producer ranking ?

    23
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    Now

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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

Château Leoville Las Cases

Château Léoville Las Cases is one of the largest and oldest classified growths in the Médoc known since 1707. The wine produced here was classified as one of fifteen Second Growths in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.

Today’s Léoville Las Cases was once part of a much larger estate until the time of the French Revolution when a portion of this estate was separated into what is today Ch...

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Written Notes

Deep, ruby almost purple colour. Pronounced yet elegant nose shows the beautiful complexity – cassis, wild strawberries and black fruits combined with cedary spiciness, dark chocolate. Powerful but sophisticated palate is very vivid, intense and subtle. The aromas in the nose are followed in the palate. Harmonious wine with long lingering finish. Great energetic wine which will gain more complexity within ageing for at least five to seven years most likely more than that.
  • 94p

The 1985 Léoville–Las Cases is not just one of the finest vintages from this Second Growth, but one of the high points for the entirety of Bordeaux in this decade. Here it eclipses the 1985 Lafite-Rothschild with ease. It has an exquisitely defined bouquet of red berry fruit infused with crushed stone and pressed rose petals, just like before. Ethereal. The palate is medium-bodied, a perfect marriage of structure and a degree of elegance that maybe the property has not matched before or since. It’s so, so harmonious on the finish. An absolute beauty. Tasted at Hameau de Barbaron in Burgundy.

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Leoville Lascases 2. Cru Classe St. Julien – strong and powerful, reminded a lot of Gruaud Larose, but for me it lacked sweetness and length of it. 93p.
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Ruby. Cherry stones, figs, red- and blackcurrants, some herbs, bell peppers, leather and scented. Somewhat tighter and even younger than last bottle. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, refreshing, mouthwatering, raspberries touch, complex and layered, very long.
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St.Julien, Saint-Julien
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