Château Léoville Las Cases, 2ème Cru Classé, St Julien, 2024

Name: Château Léoville Las Cases, 2ème Cru Classé, St Julien
Brand: Château Léoville Las Cases
Price: 573 GBP

Available Vintages

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justerini & brooks tasting note

Silky, elegant, but with latent power, the 2024 Léoville Las Cases offers up beautiful clear fruit with aromas of blackcurrant, sour cherry, and a touch of Asian spice. Presenting great volume and depth. Layers of dark berries and spice unfold, with clove and mineral notes mingling with brambles and sous bois, all supported by well-integrated tannins. Noble aromas lead to a long and distinguished finish, marked by a lovely florality in the fruit. Mint and a hint of cigar box linger on the exquisite tannins. This wine feels both effortless and quite powerful, leaving an impressive, staining finish. A serious wine from this legendary Clos. Composed from 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc and 5% Merlot.

critic reviews

94-96/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple colored. Sashays out of the glass with gregarious notes of red currant jelly and fresh black cherries, plus nuances of iris, camphor, fragrant soil, and graphite with a touch of underbrush. The medium-bodied palate is refreshing and elegantly knit with very fine-grained tannins and bold red berry flavors, finishing long and minerally.

DRINKING WINDOW 2029 - 2049

date of review 05/2025

93-95/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2024 Léoville Las Cases was picked between September 30 and October 9 at 31 hl/ha (compare that to 11 hl/ha next door at Latour!). It is aged for 18 months in 75% new oak barrels with 6.3% pressed wine. It has a backward, almost surly bouquet with introverted black fruit, cedar, touches of cumin and light sea spray scents. Superb delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with less structure than the last two vintages, yet it upholds wonderful balance with lace-like tannins. With crisp black fruit and beautifully assimilated new oak, this fans out towards the finish. It is paradoxically a more conservative Las Cases in keeping with the limitations of the growing season, but I suspect it will gain weight and sustain with time in barrel.

DRINKING WINDOW 2031 - 2050

date of review 05/2025

94/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Medium to full intensity, vivid plum with vibrant violet around the rim, ink, black tea, chamomile flowers, slate, graphite, redcurrant, rose petals, cassis, bilberry, raspberry leaf, delivers the texture, tension and complexity that you expect from this level of estate in any vintage, and it is a success, reserved, slim and savoury with ageing potential. Arnaud Delon now at the estate, working alongside his father Jean-Hubert Delon. 31hl/ha yield. New cellars now in operation for the winemaking, 75% new oak. 3.60 pH. 31 hl/ha. 6.3% press wine. Harvest 30 September to 9 October.

DRINKING WINDOW 2032 - 2048

date of review 04/2025

93-95/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

One of the wines of the vintage, and certainly one that's likely to number among the longest-lived, is the 2024 Leoville Las Cases, a blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc and 5% Merlot that attained 13.1% alcohol. Unwinding in the glass with a pure, intense bouquet of cassis, violets and pencil shavings, it's medium to full-bodied, with terrific mid-palate density and concentration but also a seamless integration of tannin and acidity that's especially rare this year, concluding with a long, penetrating finish. Jean-Hubert Delon observes that the 2024 shares "the aromas and flavors of the 1986," defined by Cabernet Sauvignon ripened at the end of the growing season, though of course the 2024, lacking the huge power and structure of that vintage, is much more amiable than the 1986.

date of review 04/2025