2008 Ch Léoville Las Cases 2ème Cru St Julien - 12x75cl
- Colour Red
- Producer Château Léoville Las Cases
- Region St Julien
- Grape Cab. Sauvignon/ Merlot/ Cab. Franc/ Petit Verdot
- Drinking 2020 - 2038
- Case size 12x75cl
- Available Now
2008 - Ch Léoville Las Cases 2ème Cru St Julien - 12x75cl
- Colour Red
- Producer Château Léoville Las Cases
- Region St Julien
- Grape Cab. Sauvignon/ Merlot/ Cab. Franc/ Petit Verdot
- Drinking 2020 - 2038
- Case size 12x75cl
- Available Now
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Goedhuis, May 2009, Score: 91-94
Yet another impressive and powerful wine from Léoville Las Cases. The 2008 is brooding and deep, exhibiting notes of penetrating ripe fruit and aromatic spice. Amazingly complex. Despite its denseness, it has impressive lift adding notable focus and poise. This château is often a class above other Second Growths and the 2008 is yet another example.
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Goedhuis, May 2009, Score: 91-94
Yet another impressive and powerful wine from Léoville Las Cases. The 2008 is brooding and deep, exhibiting notes of penetrating ripe fruit and aromatic spice. Amazingly complex. Despite its denseness, it has impressive lift adding notable focus and poise. This château is often a class above other Second Growths and the 2008 is yet another example.
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Robert Parker, May 2011, Score: 93+
A classic style of Las Cases that is somewhat masculine for the vintage, tannic and backward, and less formidably concentrated than the 2009 or 2010, the 2008 needs 7-8 years of cellaring. Dense purple, the aromatics are closed, but with coaxing and aggressive swirling, notes of crushed rock, black currants and some forest floor notes emerge. Impressively built, medium to full-bodied, layered and stunningly concentrated, this is a sleeper vintage for Leoville Las Cases that should improve considerably, given how closed it was the day I tasted it. It is another 30+ year wine from proprietor Jean-Hubert Delon.
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Robert Parker, April 209, Score: 95-97+
Readers should not be surprised that the 2008 Leoville Las Cases is a great classic as the selection process here is as Draconian as at any of the first-growths. The harvest was very late, between October 6-18, and the result is a wine boasting extraordinarily sweet tannin as well as abundant black cherry and cassis notes intermixed with a prominent underlying minerality. Despite the massive density, concentration, and length, the wine is extremely precise, nuanced, and impeccably pure. This phenomenal effort should be more drinkable in its youth than many other vintages of Las Cases because of the ripe tannins and sweet fruit density. It will need 5-10 years of cellaring, and should last for 40+ years. Drink: 2014 - 2054
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Jancis Robinson, April 2009, Score: 18
Extremely deep blackish crimson. Spicy oak on the nose - very intense. Then amazingly opulent on the nose. Round and dense and dramatic. Like a cross between mulberries and tarmacadam. The Cabernets were naturally more than 13% apparently. Real excitement. Neat though not extraordinarily long finish. Still very, very youthful. The finish is very dry and brooding but much more supple than some earlier vintages.
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Wine Spectator, April 2009, Score: 91-94
Wonderful nose of roses, violets, raspberries and black licorice. Full-bodied, with a solid core of ripe fruit and lots of beautiful wood. Excellent.
Region
St Julien
St Julien is like the middle child of the Médoc - not as assertive as Pauillac or as coquettish as Margaux. It lies firmly between the two more outspoken communes and as a result produces a blend of them both. St Julien's wines have often been sought out by aficionados for their balance and consistency, particularly in the UK. Yet due to its middle child nature, it can occasionally be overlooked globally and as a result underrated by those markets outside the UK. Despite the fact that it has no first growths, it has several second growths including Léoville Las Cases, Léoville Barton, Léoville Poyferré and Ducru Beaucaillou as well as the celebrated châteaux such as Talbot and Beychevelle.
