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Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2eme Cru Classe, Saint-Julien 2021
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Region

France > Bordeaux > Saint-Julien

Producer

Chateau Leoville Las Cases

Grape

Bordeaux red blend

Type

Red

Designation

AOP

Vineyard

NA

Appellation

Saint-Julien

Classification

2eme Cru Classe

Score

97
Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2eme Cru Classe, Saint-Julien
· 2021·

WO score

RP
97
V
95
JR
-
WO score is the average of all critic scores for this wine

Tasting notes

Vinous
Tasted: 12/05/2022
Drink: 2030-2070
Author: Neal Martin

The 2021 Léoville Las Cases was picked from 28 September until 8 October and includes just 5% Merlot from the northern sectors of the vineyard due to coulure. They found that increased percentages of Merlot did not contribute to the blend. Matured in 85% new oak, it has an intense nose with black fruit, graphite and light iris flower aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with...

...sappy black fruit, quite a potent marine influence at play, almost briny (perhaps accentuated by the changeable weather on the day of my visit). Very impressive in terms of depth and backbone/grip with iodine and oyster shells towards the finish, this is a cerebral Las-Cases that will demand patience. Then again, name me a vintage of Las-Cases that doesn't! Alcohol here is at 13.20%.

 

Vinous
Tasted: 10/05/2022
Drink: 2031-2061
Author: Antonio Galloni

The 2021 Léoville Las-Cases is classy, nuanced and so expressive. There's gorgeous depth, and yet the 2021 is not as explosive as it has been in the recent past. That's not a bad thing, not at all. Cabernet Sauvignon and Franc comprise fully 95% of the blend in a Las Cases that is beautifully persistent from start to finish. It's a wine that has one foot in its rich, historical past, and the other very much in the more modern style of contemporary vintages. There is so much to look forward to.

 

Robert Parker
Tasted: 29/04/2022
Drink:

One of the wines of the vintage, the 2021 Léoville Las Cases is reminiscent of a hypothetical blend of the 1999 and 1996—only better. Offering up incipiently complex aromas of cassis, plums and dark berries mingled with loamy soil, cigar wrapper and exotic spices, it's full-bodied, layered and multidimensional, with superb amplitude and concentration, velvety tannins, lively...

...acids and a long, penetrating finish. Uniting classicism and charm, it exemplifies how a great terroir, exigent agronomy and meticulous winemaking can deliver greatness even in a less propitious vintage. It's a blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc and a mere 5% Merlot this year, checking in at 13.2% alcohol.

 

Vinous
Tasted: 29/04/2022
Drink: 2030-2070
Author: Neal Martin

The 2021 Léoville Las Cases was picked from 28 September until 8 October and includes just 5% Merlot from the northern sectors of the vineyard due to coulure. They found that increased percentages of Merlot did not contribute to the blend. Matured in 85% new oak, it has an intense nose with black fruit, graphite and light iris flower aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with...

...sappy black fruit, quite a potent marine influence at play, almost briny (perhaps accentuated by the changeable weather on the day of my visit). Very impressive in terms of depth and backbone/grip with iodine and oyster shells towards the finish, this is a cerebral Las-Cases that will demand patience. Then again, name me a vintage of Las-Cases that doesn't! Alcohol here is at 13.20%. News broke during en primeur that Jean-Guillaume Prats will be joining Jean-Hubert Delon. Delon himself was in a meeting during my visit, so I discussed the vintage with current export director, Antoine Gimbert. “It was important to avoid any hollow center,” he explained. “We had to be extremely careful with the balance. The tannic structure was flying quite high, so the Clos du Marquis, Le Petit Lion and Léoville Las-Cases contain around 4% vin de presse this year [lower than other châteaux]. We had to be careful during extraction and so did more of an infusion than extraction. We didn’t need to do any chaptalisation. We feel the 2021 is better than the 2014 and 2017. Maybe it has the structure of the 1988 with elements of the 1999 and 2001. It’s a classic Bordeaux.”

 

Vinous
Tasted: 29/04/2022
Drink: 2031-2061
Author: Antonio Galloni

The 2021 Léoville Las-Cases is classy, nuanced and so expressive. There's gorgeous depth, and yet the 2021 is not as explosive as it has been in the recent past. That's not a bad thing, not at all. Cabernet Sauvignon and Franc comprise fully 95% of the blend in a Las Cases that is beautifully persistent from start to finish. It's a wine that has one foot in its rich, historical past, and the other very much in the more modern style of contemporary vintages. There is so much to look forward to.

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