Château Léoville Las Cases - St.-Julien 2010
Price: $289.99
| Producer | Château Léoville Las Cases |
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| Country | France |
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| Region | Bordeaux |
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| Subregion | St.-Julien |
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| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
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| Vintage | 2010 |
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| Sku | 36212 |
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Château Léoville Las Cases Description
Léoville-Las Cases is unquestionably one of the great names and wines of Bordeaux. Situated next to Latour, Léoville-Las Cases's main vineyard is on the border of Saint-Julien and Pauillac on some of the most prime real-estate in all of Bordeaux. While the meticulous and passionate commitment to quality here may be equaled by several other estates, it is rarely surpassed. The exquisitely structured wines of Léoville-Las Cases exhibit the rare yet coveted combination of power and finesse, and are of course built for extended cellaring. Should a reclassification of Bordeaux’s 1855 classification take place, Léoville-Las Cases would get some serious support for first-growth status.
Wine Enthusiast: 100 Points
A hugely powerful wine, full of dark, brooding tannins. It's a wine for seriously long-term aging, a sculptural vision of classic Bordeaux structure with with classy, ripe blackberry fruits. It has fresh acidity and an immense full-bodied character, cut through with mineral acidity. A great wine, with great potential.
Decanter Magazine: 100 Points
Layered, textured, deep, cigar box, cassis and earth, managing to simultaneously stretch out, and burrow down. The edges open slowly but surely and seductively. Still inky in colour, this has all the powerful texture and tannic architecture that you expect from Leoville, and unlike the 2009 at its ten year point it is still keeping plenty of secrets close to its chest. But you are going to want to be around when it fully opens.
James Suckling: 99 Points
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.
Wine Spectator: 99 Points
Stunning and pure from the get-go, with intense cassis and blackberry fruit. Ultimately takes a slightly austere approach, with a wrought-iron structure driving along while pastis, black tea, licorice snap and asphalt notes course underneath. Long and loaded with grip, this remains remarkably fine-grained. A very chiseled Cabernet that is wonderfully precise and incredibly long. Best from 2020 through 2040.
Wine Advocate: 98 Points
The most powerful wine in this vertical is the 2010 Leoville Las Cases, a full-bodied, deep and multidimensional behemoth redolent of rich berries, cassis, burning embers, pencil shavings and loamy soil. Broad-shouldered, layered and muscular, with huge reserves of concentration and sweet, powdery tannin, it concludes with a broad, resonant finish. This is a prodigious, somewhat imposing Las Cases that is still an infant a decade after bottling. Best After 2025
