Tasting Notes
Neal Martin 92
The 2007 Léoville Las-Cases is a wine that I have encountered on several occasions. This has a fresh bouquet with a little more greenness compared to other bottles, yet it s still attractive with a freshly rolled tobacco aroma coming through strongly with time. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins. It s a little more austere than a couple of years ago, yet it delivers a sappy, marine-tinged finish that urges you back for more. This is chugging along nicely. Tasted at Jeroboam’s Bordeaux tasting.
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2038
Vinous 92
Deep, bright ruby-red. Rather medicinal aromas of cassis, licorice, dark chocolate, menthol and shoe polish went into a shell in the glass. Then suave and surprisingly ripe in the mouth; classically dry but not at all austere, with well-judged extraction to the fla vors of black raspberry, graphite and minerals. Rich, structured wine with a slow-building finish featuring substantial but harmonious tannins and terrific sweetness for all its backbone.
Wine Advocate 92
Tasted at BI Wine & Spirits’ 10-Years-On tasting, I tasted two bottles of the 2007 Leoville-Las Cases since the first bottle was not faulty, but did not feel right to me. I requested a second bottle, and it was completely different. The 2007 has a very backward bouquet with blackberry, bilberry, tobacco and marine-like aromas that blossom in the glass given adequate aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannin, layers of blackberry and boysenberry fruit, sea salt, black pepper and plenty of tobacco towards the long and sustained finish. I would be inclined to give this a year or two in bottle, unlike most of the other Saint Julien wines this vintage, because there is a class act here. Tasted February 2017
Anticipated maturity: 2018-2035
