Leoville Las Cases 2010

St Julien, Second Growth

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Tasting Notes
The aromas to this wine have a beautiful purity of raspberries, blueberries, currants, and flowers that follow to a a full body, with super integrated tannins that are like the finest silk in texture. It shows elegant and pretty fruit character and a reserve and finesse of such great years as 1989 and 1995. The bright strong acidity gives a crunchy and creamy texture. This has a tiny bit more Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend than 2009. Give it at least six to eight years of bottle age. Score: 99 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2019+ 04 February 2013
The 2010 is a quintessentially elegant, classic wine of Bordeaux - firm, rigid, perhaps slightly lighter than most of the other St.-Juliens, but stylish, potentially complex, and reminiscent of the style of the 1986, but more concentrated and powerful. It is a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc with a normal pH of 3.56. It was raised in 75% new oak and the alcohol came to 13.7%. This wine displays loads of black currants, cedar wood and vanillin, but needs a good 7-8 years of cellaring, if not much longer. It should last for 30+ years. Score: 96 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2020-2050 01 February 2013
This top second growth neighbours Chateau Latour on the border of St Julien and Pauillac, and is regularly one of the top non-Firsts Growths with a serious claim for promotion. Usually brooding, closed and difficult to taste en primeur but in 2010 it is surprisingly generous for Lascases. A hugeful mouthful, tons of body and acidity, but light on its feet for such as powerful wine. All very creamy but just a little disjointed - sandpaper texture followed by polishing with velvet. A wine of two halves. Score: 94 - 97 Albany Vintners, - 28 April 2011
Cropped at 36.7hl/ha, the Leoville Las-Cases is a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc, offering 13.7% alcohol and a pH of 3.56. It will be raised in 75% new oak. The nose is very intense with notes of blackberry, cassis, tobacco and a touch of black truffle, all very well defined and perhaps less generous, but more cerebral than the 2009. The palate is full-bodied with exceptionally silky smooth tannins, wonderful harmony and sense of beguiling composure and completeness. The finish is tannic, driven by the ripe Cabernet Sauvignon. I expect this Las-Cases to close down for a few years...it will need time to mellow and reach its drinking plateau. Drink 2025- Tasted March 2011. Score: 96 - 98 Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2025+ 15 April 2011
Stunning concentration of fruit, precision and purity, a great vineyard expression and a totally great wine in the most simple sense of the term. Score: 19 - 20 Decanter, Decanter.com Maturity: 2025-2050 01 April 2011

Tasting Notes

The aromas to this wine have a beautiful purity of raspberries, blueberries, currants, and flowers that follow to a a full body, with super integrated tannins that are like the finest silk in texture. It shows elegant and pretty fruit character and a reserve and finesse of such great years as 1989 and 1995. The bright strong acidity gives a crunchy and creamy texture. This has a tiny bit more Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend than 2009. Give it at least six to eight years of bottle age.

Score: 99

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2019+ 04 February 2013

The 2010 is a quintessentially elegant, classic wine of Bordeaux - firm, rigid, perhaps slightly lighter than most of the other St.-Juliens, but stylish, potentially complex, and reminiscent of the style of the 1986, but more concentrated and powerful. It is a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc with a normal pH of 3.56. It was raised in 75% new oak and the alcohol came to 13.7%. This wine displays loads of black currants, cedar wood and vanillin, but needs a good 7-8 years of cellaring, if not much longer. It should last for 30+ years.

Score: 96

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2020-2050 01 February 2013

This top second growth neighbours Chateau Latour on the border of St Julien and Pauillac, and is regularly one of the top non-Firsts Growths with a serious claim for promotion. Usually brooding, closed and difficult to taste en primeur but in 2010 it is surprisingly generous for Lascases. A hugeful mouthful, tons of body and acidity, but light on its feet for such as powerful wine. All very creamy but just a little disjointed - sandpaper texture followed by polishing with velvet. A wine of two halves.

Score: 94 - 97

Albany Vintners, - 28 April 2011

Cropped at 36.7hl/ha, the Leoville Las-Cases is a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc, offering 13.7% alcohol and a pH of 3.56. It will be raised in 75% new oak. The nose is very intense with notes of blackberry, cassis, tobacco and a touch of black truffle, all very well defined and perhaps less generous, but more cerebral than the 2009. The palate is full-bodied with exceptionally silky smooth tannins, wonderful harmony and sense of beguiling composure and completeness. The finish is tannic, driven by the ripe Cabernet Sauvignon. I expect this Las-Cases to close down for a few years...it will need time to mellow and reach its drinking plateau. Drink 2025- Tasted March 2011.

Score: 96 - 98

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2025+ 15 April 2011

Stunning concentration of fruit, precision and purity, a great vineyard expression and a totally great wine in the most simple sense of the term.

Score: 19 - 20

Decanter, Decanter.com Maturity: 2025-2050 01 April 2011

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