CHATEAU LEOVILLE-LAS-CASES 'Grand Vin de Leoville' 2eme Grand Cru Classe, Saint-Julien 2010 Bottle

Description

The 2010 Léoville Las Cases is a remarkable Bordeaux that has received exceptional acclaim, including 100 points from Decanter and Wine Enthusiast. Decanter highlights its layered texture with aromas of cigar box, cassis, and earthy notes, showcasing the powerful tannic architecture typical of Léoville, while also indicating the wine's need for further aging. Wine Enthusiast praises its immense character, ripe blackberry fruit, and fresh acidity, marking it as a splendid option for long-term ageing. James Suckling awarded it 99 points for its pure raspberry, blueberry, and currant aromas, supported by silky tannins and vibrant acidity. The Wine Advocate rated it 98 points, emphasising its deep, rich character and complexity. Vinous awarded it 96 points, noting its precision and mineral-driven finish, underscoring its lasting potential.

*****

DECANTER 100 points !!!
Tasted by: Jane Anson
(at BI London, 30 Jan 2020)
Drinking Window: 2022 - 2050
Layered, textured, deep, cigar box, cassis and earth, managing to simultaneously stretch out, and burrow down. The edges open slowly but surely and seductively. Still inky in colour, this has all the powerful texture and tannic architecture that you expect from Leoville, and unlike the 2009 at its ten year point it is still keeping plenty of secrets close to its chest. But you are going to want to be around when it fully opens.

WINE ENTHUSIAST 100 points !!!
A hugely powerful wine, full of dark, brooding tannins. It's a wine for seriously long-term aging, a sculptural vision of classic Bordeaux structure with with classy, ripe blackberry fruits. It has fresh acidity and an immense full-bodied character, cut through with mineral acidity. A great wine, with great potential. — Roger Voss

JAMES SUCKLING 99 points
The aromas to this wine have a beautiful purity of raspberries, blueberries, currants, and flowers that follow to a a full body, with super integrated tannins that are like the finest silk in texture. It shows elegant and pretty fruit character and a reserve and finesse of such great years as 1989 and 1995. The bright strong acidity gives a crunchy and creamy texture. This has a tiny bit more Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend than 2009. Give it at least six to eight years of bottle age.

THE WINE ADVOCATE 98 points
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Drink Date: 2025 - 2065
The most powerful wine in this vertical is the 2010 Léoville Las Cases, a full-bodied, deep and multidimensional behemoth redolent of rich berries, cassis, burning embers, pencil shavings and loamy soil. Broad-shouldered, layered and muscular, with huge reserves of concentration and sweet, powdery tannin, it concludes with a broad, resonant finish. This is a prodigious, somewhat imposing Las Cases that is still an infant a decade after bottling.

VINOUS 96 points
The 2010 Léoville Las Cases has a clean and precise bouquet, beautifully focused with blackberry, melted tar, cigar humidor and crushed stone aromas. It gains intensity with aeration without ever losing its precision. The palate is medium-bodied with lithe tannins, a fine bead of acidity, a sense of abiding symmetry and detail as it fans out on the mineral-driven finish. This is an absolutely awesome Saint-Julien with a long life ahead. Tasted from an ex-château bottle at the BI Wines & Spirits 10-Year On tasting. - Neal Martin