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  • Country ranking ?

    487
  • Producer ranking ?

    7
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2045
  • Food Pairing

    Rib Eye Steaks with Demi-Glace and White Bean Purée

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THE WINE ADVOCATE  98/100

The 2000 Leoville-Las-Cases is a quite fabulous. Magisterial Saint Julien that is only just beginning to flex its muscles.
It has a very intense and beautifully defined bouquet with mineral rich blackberry and bilberry scents, outstanding focus and harmony, and very well-integrated oak.
What was remarkable was to observe the melioration in the glass, achieving wondrous energy and delineation with time, still improving after a couple of hours.

Bettane

Tout ce qu'on aime dans un grand Saint-Julien : la finesse et la subtilité des arômes, de la texture et des tanins, avec une vinosité supérieure à celle de tous les autres.

Revue des Vins de France

Un vin opulent d’une grande expression. En attaque, la richesse amène en bouche une superbe présence tannique. L’expression de fruit est magnifiée en finale avec de complexes notes de menthol. Tout en suavité, sans aspérité, ce Léoville s’impose par sa race et sa longueur.

Robert Parker

When I did my earlier tastings of the 2000, my projected maturity dates were 2012-2040, but it is looking more like 2020-2050. This full-bodied blend of nearly 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.4% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc still has a youthful ruby/purple color, notes of graphite, kirsch liqueur, black currants, and lead pencil shavings, with good acidity, the tell-tale purity, layered ripeness and intensity, and a profound finish. However, with its high level of tannin and brooding backwardness, this superb effort needs to be forgotten for up to a decade.

Wine Spectator

Absolutely fantastic. This is one of the most exciting young reds I have tasted in a long, long time. It shows intense aromas of berries, currants and minerals, with hints of mint. Full-bodied and packed with fruit and tannins, its long finish is refined and silky. A benchmark for the vintage. Las Cases has always wanted to make first-growth quality in a top-notch vintage.

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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 widely recognized for years.

 

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 Château Léoville-Barton. In 1840, the estate was again divided and land that would eventually become Château Léoville-Poyferré was split off. When the 1855 Classification was completed, all three properties from the original Léoville estate were classed as Second Growths. Since the mid 20th century the Delon family have been owners of this estate.

The soil of St Julien is ideal for vines, due to its geographic situation and its climate; every element is present to produce wines of exceptional quality and elegance. Léoville Las Cases' 97 hectares of vineyards are superbly sited on gravelly-clay soils with the largest plot being surrounded by a stone wall and stretching between the village of St-Julien and Château Latour.
 

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Wine Information

The vintage 2000 was especially early thanks to rather mild weather at the beginning of the growth cycle. After heavy rain in April and cool weather until mid-June, the summer was then hot and dry up until the harvest. These very good weather conditions allowed us to produce perfectly balanced grapes with extremely rich phenolic components.

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Written Notes

The 2000 Leoville Las Cases was relatively disappointing, given how much I love this vintage. As known by those that read all my articles, I tasted all five First Growths from 2000 a week later, and they all showed considerably better than the Leoville on this night. This was elegant and wheaty, but lean and shut down. It had some zip, but I felt like I couldn’t feel the greatness in the wine on this night. Certainly, it will show better in the future and probably has in the past (93+).
  • 93p
Deep and intense ruby colour. Very classic and complex nose is dominated by chocolate, cappuccino, toast and roasted coffee aromas. The fruit is still masked underneath them. The palate is medium-bodied with mouth-drying tannins, balancing acidity and restrained fruitiness. Moderately short finish. The wines has a hidden elegance which does not show yet. To deliver it full potential it needs to age for at least twenty years if not thirty.
  • 88p

Ruby. Cassis, blueberries, touch of anise, leather and tobacco, layered, tight still, youthful for the age. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, spices, anise, blueberries, nuanced, layered, intense, superb length, still far too young. 96

  • 96p

Tasted in September 2017. Consistent notes. It's been 14 years between my two TNs on this wine and to say it frankly - it hasn't changed that much!! In April 2003, I asked myself, if this wine could match Bordeaux' First Growth. It almost did! With such richness of nuances, concentration, depth and length, this wine could conquer whole world. A masterpiece for 30-40 years lay in the cellar. Jean-Hubert Delon continues in most exemplary way his father's eminent wine-work. Then in September 2017 (ex-chateau), it still was young as ever, a blockbuster wine with tons of ripe fruit and ripe tannin. This wine can keep forever!!

  • 98p
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Origin

St.Julien, Saint-Julien

Vintage Quality

Outstanding

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

No Potential

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Glass time

1h
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