Description
Château Léoville-Las Cases is a Deuxième Cru Classé (Second Growth) in the 1855 Bordeaux Classification, situated in Saint-Julien on the Médoc Left Bank. Widely regarded as the finest of the Super Seconds, it regularly rivals First Growth estates in quality and price. Its 97-hectare estate is anchored by the famous 55-hectare walled Grand Clos, producing around 180,000 to 200,000 bottles of Grand Vin annually.
Tasting notes
The 2009 Léoville Las Cases is aging very gracefully, exhibiting all the plenitude and generosity of the vintage without any of its potential excesses. Offering up aromas of sweet cassis, loamy soil, cigar wrapper, spices and a deft touch of classy new oak, it’s medium to full-bodied, broad and enveloping, with a layered core of fruit framed by fine, powdery tannins, concluding with a long, beautifully defined finish. It’s at the beginning of what will be a long drinking window.
[97, William Kelley, August 2022, robertparker.com]
