Château Léoville Poyferré, 2ème Cru Classé, St Julien
    Château Léoville Poyferré

    Château Léoville Poyferré, 2ème Cru Classé, St Julien, 2009

    97/100
    Inside Bordeaux
    98/100
    The Wine Independent
    96/100
    Vinous
    Available Vintages
    Broking
    1. 2009

      12x75cl

      DP

      £1,940.66

    Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

    A real tasting wine, the 2009 Leoville Poyferre is massively impressive and is a veritable writers dream. We tasted this on three separate occasions with similar notes each time. In isolation it is absolutely spellbinding, with notes of chocolate, liqueur cherries, liquid minerals, graphite, menthol, tea leaves and cedar. This is big and opulent, wonderfully rich with layer after layer of velvety fruit, poised, detailed and sumptuous. The tannins are big and ripe and one is left with a long svelte fruit finish of sweet cherries. However, on one occasion we tasted this next to Leoville Barton, and although mighty impressive, the Poyferre was somewhat overshadowed by the class of the 2009 Leoville Barton, but this will probably come down to personal preference.

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    Critic Reviews

    97/100
    Jane Anson,
    Inside Bordeaux
    Intense and concentrated, these were the years when Poyferré was turning up the exuberance, and this is intense but clearly great quality. You'll find crème de cassis, star anise, incense, cigar box, cassis and blackberry. Unusually for 2009, this is not yet ready and needs another four or five years to fully soften and open, but has got so much life ahead of it. Harvest September 29 to 12 October. 80% new oak.
    drinking window 2024 - 2048
    date of review 10/2024
    96/100
    Neal Martin,
    Vinous
    The 2009 Léoville-Poyferré is intense but beautifully controlled on the nose with an enticing but not exotic mélange of red and black fruit laced with pencil box and smoke. Superb intensity. The palate is medium-bodied with fine grain tannins, brisk and spicy, brimming with energy and fanning out gloriously towards the finish. There is nothing overblown or extravagant, yet it harnesses the precocity of the vintage to glorious effect. Drinking supremely well now and for a number of years. Tasted at the Léoville-Poyferré vertical at the château with Sara Lecompte Cuvelier.
    drinking window 2021 - 2050
    date of review 09/2022
    98/100
    Lisa Perrotti-Brown,
    The Wine Independent
    The 2009 Leoville Poyferre is medium to deep garnet-brick in color. It bursts from the glass with bombastic notions of kirsch, raspberry preserves, warm cassis, and stewed plums, plus suggestions of Ceylon tea, candied violets, and Indian spices. Medium-bodied, the palate is soft, plush, and seductive, delivering seamless freshness to lift the perfumed fruit to a long finish.
    drinking window 2022 - 2042
    date of review 06/2022

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    Specifications

    Country:
    France
    Region:
    Bordeaux
    Appellation:
    St Julien
    style:
    Red Wine
    Grape Variety:
    Cab Sauvignon Merlot
    abv:
    13%

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