chateau leoville poyferre 2eme cru classe st julien

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

Name: Château Léoville Poyferré, 2ème Cru Classé, St Julien
Brand: Château Léoville Poyferré
Price: 1940.66 GBP

97/100

Inside Bordeaux

98/100

The Wine Independent

96/100

Vinous

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2009
12x75cl
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£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

Producer:

Château Léoville Poyferré

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Cab Sauvignon Merlot

abv:

13%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.