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Manage Subscriptions2004 Château Léoville Poyferré
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- Bordeaux
- Médoc
- St. Julien
Community Tasting Notes 273
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oenanthe Likes this wine: 91 points
March 25, 2024 - Bordeaux 2004 20 years on (Blacklock City): Instantly in your face, night and day vs the St Estephe flight. Fully on the dark cassis spectrum, there are olive notes, meat, fat. It is richer, rounder, altogether more giving and pleasing, but can’t quite keep up with the Barton for classicism allied with sensual enjoyment.
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NickA Likes this wine: 94 points
March 25, 2024 - Jonathan's 2004 horizontal (Blacklock City): Like its flight-mate, this is in a great place, and a particularly good 2004. Soft, rounded nose, with savoury notes and tobacco. Darker on the palate than the Barton, with cocoa and espresso as well as dark blue fruit, but with good acidity too, which (along with the attractive powdery tannins) made this excellent with the lamb. Really enjoyable even if it lacks the complexity and definition of a truly great wine. My #2 tonight, and the group's #3.
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Rugan wrote: 92 points
March 24, 2024 - Nice for a 2004. Balanced and well structured. Smooth tannins and integrated fruit. at its prime I would say. Medium length.
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Papies wrote: 92 points
March 23, 2024 - We have had this a good few times over the last 8 years and definitely continues to improve. The modern style of it in a way vs a St Julien coupled with the juicy fruit of the appellation helps in a vintage like 2004 and now that is full on into its secondary form is every so classical and classy and just delivers. Very pretty 92+
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Cailles wrote: 92 points
February 24, 2024 - Bordeaux 2004 - 20 Years On - 33 Reds: All wines tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) 2004 is a mediocre vintage overall, with many pleasant wines, but without the depth of better years. 2) At the top, the vintage produced some classic, old-school wines with lots of freshness and fresh fruit. 3) At the lower end, many wines lacked fruit and ripe tannins, resulting in some astringent and slightly drying wines. 4) An alarming number of Right Bank wines (5 out of 16, no Left Bank wine) were oxidized, including some heavyweights like Petrus, Evangile or Figeac. An unacceptably high proportion of faulty wines. 5) I’m not sure that the 2004 are currently in a good phase, many of my scores were lower than in previous tastings. The question is if it’s just a weaker phase or the beginning of the end. 6) At the top and the only wine >95pts was a layered Le Pin (rated 96pts), with a charming Vieux Chateau Certan, a surprising Issan and Clos l'Eglise, as well as an elegant Lafite sharing second place (all rated 94pts).
TN: Medium expressive nose, dark berries, blue berries, ripe but not too ripe. Some fresh herbs. Quite a good nose. On the palate beautiful red berries, some blue fruit, some minerality. Medium complex, good precision. The structure is round with fine tannins, good acidity. This is quite classy and complete. Poyferre is always the most seductive and ripe wine among its St. Julien peers and that works well in this vintage.
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By Chris Kissack
November 2019, 11/1/2019 (link)(Château Léoville-Poyferré St Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jane Anson
JA Château Léoville Poyferré vertical 2018, 6/13/2018 (link)(Château Léoville Poyferré, St-Julien, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Gary Walsh
5/12/2014 (link)(Chateau Leoville Poyferre) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Chris Kissack
March 2014, 3/1/2014 (link)(Château Léoville-Poyferré St Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
2/25/2014 (link)(Ch Léoville Poyferré St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Julia Harding, MW
5/19/2009 (link)(Ch Léoville Poyferré St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
12/24/2008 (link)(Ch Léoville Poyferré St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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December 2008, Issue #22 (link)
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By Chris Kissack
November 2008 (link)(Chateau Léoville-Poyferré St Julien) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
10/16/2006 (link)(Ch Léoville Poyferré St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
May/June 2006, IWC Issue #126 (link)(Chateau Leoville Poyferre Saint Julien) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
May/June 2005, IWC Issue #120 (link)(Chateau Leoville Poyferre Saint Julien) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
4/5/2005 (link)(Ch Léoville Poyferré St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Neal Martin
Léoville-Poyferré 1936-2018 (Sep 2022) (link)(Léoville-Poyferré Léoville-Poyferré Red) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2004
- Type Red
- Producer Château Léoville Poyferré
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- SubRegion Médoc
- Appellation St. Julien
- UPC Codes 000006267056, 087000333000, 087000341951, 3364420028394, 3364420037112, 3412950406820, 3419466183092, 3700188007798, 3760181350314, 3760181350888, 616773379108, 714153123218, 766592001121
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 313 (4%)
- In Cellars 5,277 (62%)
- Consumed 2,863 (34%)
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- SubRegionMédoc
- AppellationSt. Julien
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