Château LEOVILLE-LAS-CASES 2019 magnum 150 cl

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Yves Beck 99 points www.yvesbeck.wine

Dégusté le 01.12.2021 par Yves Beck

79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc

Que de densité, de puissance dans ce bouquet ! A lui seul, il pose les jalons que l’on rattache à un grand vin; la notion de finesse et de puissance est source de grandeur ! Il affiche de multiples facettes, que ce soit par le biais de nuances florales, de baies rouges ou noires, d’épices et de minéralité… et finalement il y a même du chocolat ! Les Suisses vont adorer. En bouche le vin ne peut que confirmer les promesses olfactives. Ses tannins sont amples, crémeux, très fins et imposants, sans être écrasants. Ils sont même regardants et entraînent l’ensemble des éléments avec eux, jusqu’en fin de bouche. Ce Léoville Las Cases est d’une incroyable finesse. Il ne renie aucunement la puissance qu’on lui connait, et cette aptitude de Léoville à créer de très grands vins de garde, mais il offre surtout une étonnante accessibilité et met bien des réjouissances en perspective. Avec ce vin, Léoville confirme la grandeur du millésime sur rive gauche, plus précisément entre St-Julien et St-Estèphe. Une très grande réussite à nouveau… on prendrait presque l’habitude !  2028-2060

Was für eine Dichte und Kraft in diesem Bouquet! Er allein setzt die Maßstäbe, die man an einen großen Wein anlegt; die Kombination aus Finesse und Kraft ist eine Quelle der Größe! Er zeigt viele Facetten, sei es durch blumige Nuancen, rote oder schwarze Beeren, Gewürze und Mineralik… und schließlich ist sogar Schokolade dabei! Die Schweizer werden es lieben. Am Gaumen kann der Wein die olfaktorischen Versprechungen nur bestätigen. Seine Tannine sind umfassend, cremig, sehr fein und imposant, ohne überwältigend zu sein. Sie nehmen sogar Rücksicht auf die anderen Elemente und nehmen sie mit sich, bis zum Gaumenende. Dieser Léoville Las Cases ist von unglaublicher Finesse. Er verleugnet keineswegs die Kraft, die man von ihm kennt, und die Fähigkeit von Léoville, sehr große Lagerweine zu schaffen, aber er bietet vor allem eine erstaunliche Zugänglichkeit und stellt viele Freuden in Aussicht. Mit diesem Wein bestätigt Léoville die Größe des Jahrgangs am linken Ufer, genauer gesagt zwischen St-Julien und St-Estèphe. Erneut eine beachtliche Leistung… man könnte sich fast daran gewöhnen!  2028-2060

Lisa Perrotti-Brown 98-99+ points www.robertparker.com
The 2019 Léoville Las Cases is a blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc and 11% Merlot. Harvest began early for the Merlot, on the 18th of September, and the Cabernets were picked in October, finishing on the 8th of October. The IPT number (measurement of tannins) is 80—the same as 2018. The alcohol came at 14.02% (lower than 2018), but it does seem a little lower than this percentage, probably because the pH is a little lower this year, at 3.67. It is aging in French oak barriques, 90% new. The color is opaque purple-black, with a nose that unfurls slowly in the glass, beginning with vibrant, expressive black fruit notes of freshly crushed blackcurrants, ripe blackberries and fresh black cherries, followed by a beguiling array of floral and earth nuances—candied violets, lavender, fragrant soil, underbrush, crushed rocks and black truffles. The medium to full-bodied wine dances ever so gracefully on the palate, demurely revealing tightly wound layers of of bright, crunchy black fruits and tantalizing floral and mineral sparks, supported by a rock-solid structure of firm, finely grained tannins and fantastic tension, finishing with epic persistence. Although the style is completely different, the barrel sample is behaving a lot like the Haut-Brion sample was when I tasted it, in that it appears to be holding just that little bit extra back right now. I have to call it as I see it today, but I wouldn’t be surprised if when I come back to taste this from bottle, it shows me all that and a lot more.

Neal Martin 96-98 points www.vinous.com
The 2019 Léoville Las-Cases was picked from 18 September to 8 October and matured in 90% new oak barrels. Typically deep and limpid in colour, it has a knockout nose with penetrating blackberry, bilberry and blueberry fruit struck through with an accentuated marine/oyster shell element. The palate is beautiful, the fine-grain tannins framing delineated, mineral-infused black fruit. There is a clarity to this Grand Vin that places it amongst Jean-Hubert Delon’s finest releases in recent years and it is blessed with astounding length. You come away with the feeling of a nascent wine boasting immense coiled-up energy that will guarantee its longevity. Stunning.

Jeb Dunnuck 97-99+ points www.jebdunnuck.com
The 2019 Château Léoville Las Cases is one seriously majestic beauty that shows the elegant, pure, balanced style of this vintage to a T. The 2019 is a blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc that was raised in 90% new French oak. Notes of crème de cassis, smoked black cherries, graphite, tobacco, and damp earth all emerge from the glass, and it hits the palate with medium to full-bodied richness, a fresh, chiseled texture, layers of ripe tannins, and a solid spine of acidity. The 2019 will be one for the ages and will need at least a decade of bottle age, but it will drink well for 50-60 years or more.

Jane Anson 98 points  www.decanter.com (at Bordeaux, 12 May 2020)
I love it when a wine steals up on you, and you very definitely get that here, taking its time on the first attack then rapidly expanding outwards and upwards. Undoubtedly it will knit down as Las Cases can’t help itself but do, but there is a creamy almost caramel side hiding among the tannins here. Beautiful power and layers of charcoal, slate, crushed stones, cassis, bilberry and tobacco – all displayed with elegance and tension. A long harvest of over three weeks from September 18 to October 8, 6.5% press wine used, a little more than in 2018 (where just over 2% was used). 3.67pH, 90% new oak. Drinking Window 2029 – 2045