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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.1 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 139 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Vinumming & Ahhing on 5/8/2024 & rated 92 points: Small Claret Dinner (SW11): Creamier than the 1989 this is served with, some cinders and tobacco leaf complement the damson fruit core. There is a pepperiness here and the tannins are fully resolved. With air there is some bresaola, a few drops of Grenadine syrup. Some tomato flesh and hints of Turkish delight. Great stuff. (203 views) | | | Tasted by PoyferrAgent1998 on 2/10/2024 & rated 92 points: A very nice showing of Poyferré. The tricky final part of the ripening season made this a real Merlot-vintage. It is therefore no surprise that 98 suits LP perfectly. Expressive, soft, lush fruits; a real ‘smoothie’. Proper structure, good balance. Drinking very well. (647 views) | | | Tasted by SilvioC on 2/5/2024 & rated 88 points: Cork disintegrated on removal.
Fruit is disappearing, lightly acidic.
Past its prime (570 views) | | | Tasted by VinhoVerde on 1/23/2024 & rated 89 points: Medium red color. Moderate fruit concentration. It’s beginning to fade a bit. Modest finish. Drink up (641 views) | | | Tasted by Bordeaux_Jon on 11/15/2023 & rated 90 points: Finally finished a bottle I had started Coravinning in 2016! This was the 4th pour on a half bottle! It was still mostly intact, amazingly. Cedar, dark fruit, forest floor. Not lively by any means, but this wasn't the best vintage of Poyferre to start, and even without Coravin it is a 25 year old wine in half bottle. I'm impressed, but definitely drink these if you have them. (1184 views) | | | Tasted by Tao on 5/19/2023 & rated 93 points: Poyferre delivers every single time and as a person who has loved drinking wine for well over a quarter of a century! Translucent rubyish colour. Strong nose of black currant fruits along with a hint of saddle leather. The palate is rich, mouthful of red fruits and a lengthy finish and it is a full package in sheer balance! A fine example of the Château Léoville Poyferré. (1607 views) | | | Tasted by François1986 on 5/3/2023 & rated 93 points: Robe entre rubis et vermillion d'intensité moyenne +
Nez ouvert et frais sur des arômes de joli poivron rouge, cassis, mûr, myrtille, fruits de bois, mentholé léger, élevage très classieux, tabac froid léger.
La bouche et fluide en attaque, ronde et consensuel en milieu et termine en finale sur un coté gras.
Un vin complet qui était parfait à boire. (1434 views) | | | Tasted by RBaird on 12/22/2022: Eric M, Ali, Tupa (1730 views) | | | Tasted by efeldhake@yahoo.com on 6/17/2022 & rated 93 points: Deep garnet in color with slight bricking edges. Nose of dark cherries, plums, and hints of leather. Tastes of cherries, plums, tobacco, leather and hints of earth. Resolved tannins and nice balance. In a very good place. Will not likely improve but should drink well for his men he’s five years. (2557 views) | | | Tasted by FalksVinkällare on 5/6/2022 & rated 93 points: Smakar stall (hästbajs)
Jättegott. Svettig sadel. (2345 views) | | | Tasted by bgriffi1 on 4/2/2022 & rated 94 points: Great stuff. Continues to have great balance between fruit and tannin. (1987 views) | | | Tasted by khmark7 on 6/25/2021 & rated 93 points: Classic Bordeaux. Really great stuff with all the character i was expecting. Drinking well upon opening. (3097 views) | | | Tasted by Purple Tooth on 2/8/2021 & rated 94 points: Funny and true fact: I sold all my 98's about 10 years ago...now Im buying them back at 2.5 times the price. Hope this never happens to you!
As I open my first of 5 in 12 years or so, I am skeptical. The wine looks very light in body with great transparency which is a great indicator for a shining gem. And then I let it sit in the bottle and drank it over 5 hours or so...This wine has a beautiful old clay nose that exudes class and elegance and underneath, is a whirlpool of cool fruit and night flowers. The wine grew and grew and became drier and more light footed, while gaining sweetness, allure, and length. Very long in fact...Really astonishing how the best glasses were the last ones and once again, it shows that some of these wines were built for the cellar first and everything else was in the hands of time. Drinks well now, but can hold for another 7 years easily. But please...just drink one! (3624 views) | | | Tasted by pleigh on 12/21/2020 & rated 94 points: Mature st julien at its finest. Elegant bordeaux. Still there. (2625 views) | | | Tasted by gothamfreerider on 9/9/2020 & rated 94 points: flavors of espresso, smoked cherries, raw blackberries, and dark chocolate. More fruit-forward and fresh as compared to 1990. but misses the complexity and velvety richness of 1990. nonetheless, fantastic! (2745 views) | | | Tasted by Claret & CdP Gang on 9/6/2020 & rated 94 points: Medium dark, nose was very correct, red fruits & cedar, lovely Poyferre, very nice on the palate, tannins fully integrated, I think it’s drinking at its peak but with at least a decade left, elegant, classy, pleasurable (2731 views) | | | Tasted by Argrath on 5/30/2020 & rated 94 points: Very classic and clean nose. Deep, dark fruit and quite layered. Black currant, cedar, tobacco and spicy oak in absolute harmony.
Clearly in the modern idiom, but not over-done. Medium-fullish, very balanced palate. Lovely fruit and lovely ripe tannins. Coffee, cedary oak and dark fruit. Good grip and long, succulent finish.
This can be cellared further. 5 yrs at least. (1666 views) | | | Tasted by MWiking on 5/24/2020 & rated 95 points: lovely wine, a perfectly matured bordeaux, had hard competition but still won tonights tasting,
a really elegant wine smooth and young, with wet tobacco tones, forrest floor, cedar etc. (2254 views) | | | Tasted by farinas on 5/10/2020 & rated 94 points: Very solid and still youthful Leoville Poyferre. Lots of charm and bouquet with a structured palate and some fruit. You can start enjoying this now. (2052 views) | | | Tasted by Sean Tay on 12/24/2019: Drinking well. Dark black fruits, cassis, smoke, cedar, toast, spices. Tasted it at Singapore Wine Vault during at their GCB during Christmas (2068 views) | | | Tasted by Ridgerunner on 11/17/2019 & rated 94 points: I am a really big fan of this particular St. Julien. Wonderful with age. (2442 views) | | | Tasted by rocknroller on 8/9/2019 & rated 94 points: Very dark red color. PNP, drank 2 glasses over 90 minutes. Another wow wine tonight and a bit of a sleeper, though a previous bottle was quite impressive. This had an exquisite perfume out of the gate wafting saddle leather and violets, cassis with dried cedar and the littlest hint of funk. A blue fruit note comes through on both the nose and palate after about 20 minutes in glass. Any fears of the palate not living up to the nose were quickly put to rest. This has a medium plus body to it with a velvety texture. I love the minerality with a lot of pencil shavings, dried earth and wood spices along with that lovely mix of black and blue fruit. The tannins are quite plush and have the depth to let this age for another 10 to 20 years. Impressive. (2929 views) | | | Tasted by vinhonotte on 7/27/2019 & rated 93 points: Praelum - Les Alcooliques (Praelum Wine Bistro): Started somewhat closed and woody savoury, but later started to show green herbs and blackberries with a bit of breathing. Has a classic Left Bank black spices character and paprika on the palate. A fair length. Great! (2515 views) | | | Tasted by Comte Flaneur on 4/25/2019 & rated 85 points: Austere and classic. But not in a particularly good way. Old carpets, leather. What little fruit this had receded. Listless. A paragon of mediocrity. (2024 views) | | | Tasted by Lindlb on 3/22/2019 & rated 93 points: Blind verkostet. Medizinal, Riccola, dunkle Frucht, Kompott, elegant am Gaumen, tolle Länge, Trinkanimo, noch Potential nach oben. Toller Wein (2054 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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JancisRobinson.com (5/19/2009)
(Ch Léoville Poyferré St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Chris Kissack
Winedoctor, January 2003
(Chateau Léoville-Poyferré St Julien) Subscribe to see review text. | By Chris Kissack
Winedoctor, January 2003
(Château Léoville-Poyferré St Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, May/June 2000, IWC Issue #90
(Chateau Leoville Poyferre Saint Julien) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, May/June 1999, IWC Issue #84
(Chateau Leoville Poyferre Saint Julien) Subscribe to see review text. | By Neal Martin
Vinous, Léoville-Poyferré 1936-2018 (Sep 2022)
(Léoville-Poyferré Léoville-Poyferré Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Lyle Fass
Rockss and Fruit (6/2/2006)
(Leoville-Poyferre) A glorious wine if a bit young. Tobacco, rich cassis fruits, some spicey oak and minerality on the nose. The palate is quite massive with extremeley concentrated fruit and thrilling ripeness but wonderful smokey, tobacco, mineral character. Sweet and ripe tannins carry the finish. Excellent acids too. |
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Léoville, dating back to 1638, was the largest vineyard in the Médoc region. Jean de Moytié, Counselor of the Bordeaux Parliament and nobleman, owned a beautiful gravel slope of vineyard near the Garonne River. At the time it was named after its owner, Mont-Moytié.
In 1740, Jean de Moytié’s great granddaughter married Alexander de Gascq, whose family owned what is now Château Palmer. With great ambition, Alexander began imposing his style by changing the name from Mont-Moytié to Léoville (Lionville). His aim was to make Léoville a model estate and the reference point for the best Médoc wine. He invested and innovated, planting smaller grape varieties, bordering the rows with pinewood, renovating the cellar and aging the free-run wine in barrels. After Alexander’s death and 35 years of expansion and planting, Léoville in Saint-Julien was the largest property in the Médoc, stretching over 300 acres.
One hundred years and numerous transactions later, Léoville Poyferré was born. Although the property was by then much smaller, its outstanding wines gained early recognition and the property was ranked 2nd Growth in the 1855 Classification. In 1920, Paul and Albert Cuvelier, at the time well-known Bordeaux wine brokers, decided to invest in Médoc vineyards and acquired Château Léoville Poyferré.
The Cuvelier Family had previously purchased Château Le Crock in 1903, at the time a classified First Cru Bourgeois Supérieur of Saint-Estèphe. Château Le Crock is surrounded by the Classified Growths Château Cos d’Estournel and Château Montrose, and has a magnificent park, vast meadows and an island. Later the family added Château Moulin Riche, a classified Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel, in 1932.
This portfolio of Bordeaux properties continues to be managed by the Cuvelier Family. Didier Cuvelier runs the Château Léoville Poyferré since 1979 and Olivier Cuvelier manages the wine merchant company H.Cuvelier & Fils since 1985. Château Léoville Poyferré, Château Moulin Riche and Château Le Crock all benefit from the same attention by the technical and winemaking team of Château Léoville Poyferré.
Only the best grapes make it into the Grand Vin Léoville Poyferré — fruit from the youngest vines becomes the Pavillon de Léoville Poyferré, while Château Moulin Riche is vinified out of a 20-hectare separate plot which is situated next to Château Talbot.
Since Didier Cuvelier took over the Chateau, the family has invested time and resources in qualitative measures to restructure and improve winemaking techniques and technology. Supported by consultant Michel Rolland since 1994, they have rediscovered the chateau’s admired classical style, characterized by rich tannins, finesse and unrivaled silky texture. The Léoville-Poyferré Grand vin is a wine that benefits immeasurably from ageing; it can be approached after 12 to 15 years, but it will age gracefully for 40 years, in some cases even longer.
With the epic 1982 vintage, Léoville-Poyferré recaptured the magic of the late 19th century, and its resurgence culminated with the 2009 vintage when it received the highly-coveted and rare 100-point score from Robert Parker.Red Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux)
History of Bordeaux
History of 1855 Bordeaux Classification
"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman
"The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanMédoc Vins du Médoc (Conseil des Vins du Médoc) - Read More about the Medoc
VdB
The eight precisely defined appellations of the whole of the Médoc (from Blanquefort Brook to the north of the Bordeaux built-up area, almost to the Pointe de Grave) may claim the Médoc appellation. But there is also a specific territory in the north of the peninsula which produces exclusively wines with this appellation. In the great majority, the Médocs come from the north of the peninsula. The great individuality of this region is that the number of vines has increased more recently here than elsewhere, apart from a few isolated spots where vines have grown for many years. Today, the size of the small estate has brought about the development of a powerful co-operative movement. Four co-operatives out of five belong to the group called Unimédoc which ensures aging, bottling and marketing a large proportion of their wines.St. Julien VdB
Read more detailed information on St. Julien and its wines The seventeenth century pioneers Traces are to be found of a Saint-Julien de Rintrac, perhaps Saint-Julien's earliest name, as from the thirteenth century. But we have to wait until the seventeenth century pioneers, urban and rural aristocrats, discover the exceptional merits of these terroirs.
Traces of this system still exist today in the structure of estates within the appellation: by the side of the two villages of Beychevelle and Saint-Julien, the large estates are heavily preponderant, representing more than four fifths of the total surface of vineyards.
The terrain is practically identical over all the commune. Only the proximity of the estuary, sometimes close, sometimes further away, can cause slight variations in climate. In fact, Saint-Julien-Beychevelle's layer of gravel takes the form of a huge rectangle over 3 miles long and 2 miles wide. And the alluvial deposits are particularly well fragmented into ridges of Garonne gravel of the early Quaternary. Accordingly, the vines are safeguarded from stagnant water.
The wines from the Saint-Julien appellation may be recognized by their unparalleled bouquet, particularly harmonious and mild. They have a fine deep colour and combine the finesse of their aromas and a solid constitution. They have body, are very rich in flavour and have a delicious and delicate bouquet.
Production conditions (Decree dated November 14, 1936)
In order to have the right to the Saint-Julien appellation of controlled origin, red wines must:
- come from the commune of Saint-Julien and from precisely defined parcels in the communes of Cussac, and Saint-Laurent, "excluding the parcels situated on recent alluvium and sand on impermeable subsoils",
- satisfy precise production conditions: grape-varieties (Cabernet-Sauvignon, Cabernet-Franc, Carmenère, Merlot Noir, Petit Verdot, Cot or Malbec), minimum of sugar (178 grammes - 6.27 oz. - per litre of must) degree (an acquired 10°5) base yield (45 hectolitres per hectare). |
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