1988 Château Léoville Las Cases

Community Tasting Note

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92 Points

Saturday, September 23, 2017 - Weekend at Magog; 9/22/2017-9/25/2017 (Magog, Quebec): Medium plus dark red color, 2mm clear margin. PNP, drank several glasses over 2 hours from 2 different 750ml bottles. Starts off with cedar and fine wood notes, dried forest floor, reticent cherry in the background, lovely mint, sauvage later and minerals. The palate is mature, medium body, not entirely austere, but steering that way. Mushrooms, cedar, dried cherry fruit, dusty fine grain tannins, smoked meat, elegant, earthy and medium on the finish. A very nice wine that is mature, ready to go and will not likely get better. As some others have noted, the structure is there to age, but the fruit can not support it. Pretty now, take advantage. 92+pts.

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