chateau leoville las cases 2eme cru classe st julien

Château Léoville Las Cases, 2ème Cru Classé, St Julien, 2022

Name: Château Léoville Las Cases, 2ème Cru Classé, St Julien
Brand: Château Léoville Las Cases
Price: 1315 GBP

99/100

Inside Bordeaux

98-100/100

The Wine Independent

99/100

Vinous

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2022
3x1.5L
DP
£1,610.74

Broking

2022
6x75cl
DP
£1,496.74

En primeur

2022
3x75cl
EP
£680.00
2022
6x75cl
EP
£1,315.00
2022
6x75cl
EP
£1,315.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Widely regarded as one of the wines of the vintage, the 2022 Leoville Las Cases was tasted away from its natural habitat, in chateau Nenin, due to construction works at home in St Julien. This certainly didn't dampen our enthusiasm, this is one of the great Leovilles, powerful and rippling, but full of tension. As one would expect, this is initially quite introverted, but with coaxing, notes of dark berries, graphite, loamy earth, Asian spices, camphor and lavender emerge. Power and subtlety. The palate is a well of lively, cassis and dark cherry fruit buttressed by glorious, detailed tannins. This is layered and complex, then tapers down to a linear finish: really well measured, this is a wine of huge potential, yet with a sense of control and focus. A blend of 83.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10.5% Cabernet Franc and 6% Merlot.

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We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

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Critic Reviews

99/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Cassis puree, bitter chocolate, so much power and intensity, with a joy and an immediacy that you rarely get in Las Cases. The tannins have a slight tug on the finish which tells you that the power of this vintage remains a little unruly, needs wrestling into place on this particular site. But hard to argue with, layered, powerful, confident, slow-moving. Arnaud Delon is joining his father at the Delon estates, and the new winery is due for completion by September 2025. 84% new oak for ageing. Eric Boissenot consultant, harvest September 8 to 30.

drinking window 2032 - 2050

date of review 03/2025

99/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The nascent 2022 Léoville Las-Cases, matured in 85% new oak, instantly makes an impression and vindicates my rhapsodizing from barrel. Intense yet boasting exquisite delineation, the aromatics are endowed with immense depth, retaining those estuarine nuances, hints of blue fruit, fig and crushed violets. The palate is medium-bodied with svelte tannins. Stunningly balanced and poised, satin-like in texture yet with ample backbone and grip to guarantee longevity, this ranks amongst the best Grand Vins that I have tasted from Jean-Hubert Delon's Saint-Julien estate. This flirts with perfection.

drinking window 2032 - 2080

date of review 02/2025

98-100/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

A blend of 83.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10.5% Cabernet Franc, and 6% Merlot, with a pH of 3.8, the 2022 Leoville Las Cases is deep garnet-purple in color. It needs a lot of waking up before it strides confidently out of the glass with classic scents of warm cassis, juicy black plums, and pencil shavings, giving way to wafts of evocative scents of iron ore, crushed rocks, wood smoke, and violets, with a hint of star anise. The medium to full-bodied palate is the Taj Mahal of Cabernets, built with an amazing structure and so many intricate layers, it makes the mind spin. Youthful, crunchy black fruits and mineral sparks give way to a core of savory notes and plum preserves, intertwined with a firm backbone of exquisitely ripe tannins, and a very long, seamlessly lively finish. Wow!

drinking window 2032 - 2072

date of review 05/2023

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Specifications

Country:

France

Region:

Bordeaux

Appellation:

St Julien

Producer:

Château Léoville Las Cases

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Cab Sauvignon Merlot

abv:

14%

allergen information

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