Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 Saint Julien
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William Kelley im April 2022: The 2019 Léoville Las Cases is a brilliant young wine that will delight Bordeaux purists. Unwinding in the glass with scents of cassis, dark berries, cigar wrapper and pencil shavings, it’s full-bodied, layered and tightly wound, with a deep core of fruit, lively acids and an abundance of rich, powdery tannins. Concentrated and serious, much like its immediate neighbor Château Latour, it is likely to emerge as one of the vintage’s longest lived—and greatest—wines.
James Suckling über den Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 Saint Julien:Currants and blackberries with crushed stones, bark and some conifer and pine cone. Perfumed. Discreet. Medium-to full-bodied with an integrated tannin structure that’s full of fine tannins that are weightless and seamless, building on the palate and coming out at the end. Needs five or six years to open. Texture of heavy silk. 79% cabernet sauvignon, 11% merlot and 10% cabernet franc. Try after 2027.
Antonio Galloni (Vinous) bewertet den Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 Saint Julien:Just as it was from barrel, the 2019 Léoville Las-Cases is a wine of pure and total sophistication. There is not the size of some recent vintages, but instead that heft is replaced by cool refinement. The expression of fruit leans into the redder end of the spectrum as opposed to the typically darker Las-Cases profile. Hints of cedar, tobacco, mint and blood orange linger. I can't wait to see how it ages.
Und Neal Martin (Vinous) zum Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 Saint Julien:he 2019 Léoville–Las Cases, bottled July 2021, retains the energetic, vivacious bouquet that I noticed last year from the barrel sample, offering intense blackberry, bilberry and still those faint shucked oyster shell scents in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with wonderful detail and precision, a mixture of black and blue fruit and enthralling clarity and length. Perhaps there is a little more creaminess in terms of texture toward the finish, a bit of "baby fat" that will be subsumed with time, so give this 8–10 years in bottle if you want to taste it in full flight. [Returning after 15 or 20 minutes, I discerned more pepperiness on the finish, and perhaps also less creaminess and more structure.] 14.02% alcohol.
Für den Wine Spectator verköstigte James Molesworth denChateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 Saint Julien:Remarkably sleek and pure, considering the generally burly and obvious tannic profile of the vintage. Delivers a pure and unadulterated beam of cassis and plum reduction flavors inlaid seamlessly with a glistening iron girder that seems to have no end point through the finish, where violet, anise and black tea notes shimmer. Reserved overall, with a beautiful austerity, this is an example of how great terroir always shines through—even in extreme years. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2030 through 2050.
Der Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 Saint Julien am Gaumen der Falstaff-Verköstiger:Dunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Feines Edelholz, ein Hauch von Nougat, schwarze Beeren unterlegt, etwas Kardamom, dunkle Kirschen, ein Hauch von kandierten Orangen. Kraftvoll, straff, engmaschig, frischer Säurebogen, würzige, tragende Tannine, ein Hauch von Schokolade im Abgang, überzeugende Balance, mineralisch und sehr lange anhaftend, Herzkirschen im Nachhall, ein Vin de Garde, kann mit einigen Stunden in der Karaffe auch bereits jung probiert werden, enormes Zukunftspotenzial. (2025 - 2065)
Lisa Perrotti Brown bewertet den Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 Saint Julien im Juni 2020:The 2019 Léoville Las Cases is a blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon. 10% Cabernet Franc and 11% Merlot. Harvest began early for the Merlot. on the 18th of September. and the Cabernets were picked in October. finishing on the 8th of October. The IPT number (measurement of tannins) is 80—the same as 2018. The alcohol came at 14.02% (lower than 2018). but it does seem a little lower than this percentage. probably because the pH is a little lower this year. at 3.67. It is aging in French oak barriques. 90% new.
The color is opaque purple-black. with a nose that unfurls slowly in the glass. beginning with vibrant. expressive black fruit notes of freshly crushed blackcurrants. ripe blackberries and fresh black cherries. followed by a beguiling array of floral and earth nuances—candied violets. lavender. fragrant soil. underbrush. crushed rocks and black truffles. The medium to full-bodied wine dances ever so gracefully on the palate. demurely revealing tightly wound layers of of bright. crunchy black fruits and tantalizing floral and mineral sparks. supported by a rock-solid structure of firm. finely grained tannins and fantastic tension. finishing with epic persistence. Although the style is completely different. the barrel sample is behaving a lot like the Haut-Brion sample was when I tasted it. in that it appears to be holding just that little bit extra back right now. I have to call it as I see it today. but I wouldn't be surprised if when I come back to taste this from bottle. it shows me all that and a lot more.
James Suckling bewertet den Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 Saint Julien im Juni 2020:So structured for the vintage. but there’s freshness and vibrancy from the acidity. Full-bodied. extremely creamy and polished. Plush silk. Extremely long. linear and compact. 79% cabernet sauvignon. 11% merlot and 10% cabernet franc.
Neal Martin bewertet den Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 Saint Julien im Juni 2020:The 2019 Léoville Las-Cases was picked from 18 September to 8 October and matured in 90% new oak barrels. Typically deep and limpid in colour. it has a knockout nose with penetrating blackberry. bilberry and blueberry fruit struck through with an accentuated marine/oyster shell element. The palate is beautiful. the fine-grain tannins framing delineated. mineral-infused black fruit. There is a clarity to this Grand Vin that places it amongst Jean-Hubert Delon's finest releases in recent years and it is blessed with astounding length. You come away with the feeling of a nascent wine boasting immense coiled-up energy that will guarantee its longevity. Stunning.