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100
/ 100
Decanter -
100
/ 100
Wine Enthusiast -
99
/ 100
James Suckling -
99
/ 100
Wine Spectator -
98
/ 100
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Red
Classification
Cabernet Blend
Variety
2010
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
France
Country
Bordeaux, Medoc
Region
14.0%
Alcohol %
15 Plus Years
Cellaring
Scores
100 / 100"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."
- Decanter
100 / 100
"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."
- Wine Enthusiast
99 / 100
"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."
- James Suckling
99 / 100
"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."
- Wine Spectator
98 / 100
"The most powerful wine in this vertical is the 2010 Léoville 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."
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Tasting Notes
Blended of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc
Château Léoville Las Cases is one of the largest and oldest classified growths in the Médoc. It is the largest of the 3 Léoville properties and arguably the leading estate in St-Julien.
This estate is the true definition of a super second, effortlessly rubbing shoulders with first growth estates showing their class and poise. The blend is dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon (65%), and is matured in oak barriques (70-80% new) for 18 months.
Léoville Las Cases produces some of the most exotically perfumed wine in the Médoc that is punchy when youthful yet wonderfully retained across the decades. On the palate it is powerfully structured with concentration and exceptional balance running the gamut of turned earth, wet leather, cigar box and spices.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity