2016 Leoville Las Cases

Bottle of 2016 Leoville Las Cases
Region
Bordeaux
Appellation
Saint-Julien
Classification
Second Growth
Format
12x75cl
Price
£2,400 per case (In Bond, GBP)
Availability
In stock
Critic score
100/100 (JA)
Drinking window
2028–2050

In Bond Fine Wine. 2016 Château Leoville Las Cases, Saint-Julien, Bordeaux, France. Second Growth • Red Bordeaux in 12x75cl. Top critic score: 100/100 (JA). Drinking window: 2028–2050. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.

Chateau Leoville Las Cases is widely regarded as one of the greatest wines of the Medoc, a top Second Growth with quality that often rivals the First Growths. Originally part of the Leoville estate before it was divided into three. Located in the northern part of Saint Julien, its walled Grand Enclos vineyard borders Chateau Latour in Pauillac, benefiting from similarly exceptional deep gravel and clay soils, yielding powerful ageworthy wines. The estate is owned and managed by the Delon family with Jean-Hubert Delon at the helm. Leoville Las Cases is typically dense and structured in its youth, requiring time to fully reveal its complexity but have recently increased the percentage of Cabernet Franc in the blend to enhance aromatic complexity, freshness and elegance in the blend. Las Cases has produced a string of outstanding vintages, including 1982, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2016, and…

What the critics say

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW (LPB) — 100/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 30/11/2018 · Drink 2028-2078

Very deep purple-black colored, the 2016 Leoville Las Cases (composed of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and 11% Cabernet Franc) is quite closed to begin, yet with patient coaxing it unfurls beautifully to reveal suggestions of ripe blackcurrants, black raspberries, warm redcurrants and wild blueberries, followed by touches of unsmoked cigars, tilled red soil, cast iron pan, fallen leaves and…

Neal Martin (NM) — 98–100/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 28/04/2017 · Drink 2030-2070

The 2016 Leoville-Las Cases comprises 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and 11% Cabernet Franc picked between 30 September and 19 October, during which the harvesters were out in the vines for 16 days. It is matured in 90% new oak and delivers 13.60% alcohol and an IPT of 82. It is initially tightly coiled on the nose and needed coaxing from the glass. There are scents of small black cherries, b…

Antonio Galloni (AG) — 95–98/100 · Vinous, 25/04/2017

Leoville Las Cases is usually a brutish, powerful wine, especially when young. The 2016, on the other hand, is a wine of total finesse. There is almost no sensation of tannin, even though the wine has the highest degree of tannin ever measured here. Sometimes wines can go from the merely outstanding into the realm of the sublime. That is very much the case with the 2016 Leoville Las Cases. I coul…

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