2015 Château Léoville Las Cases
Community Tasting Note
csimm wrote:
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 - Bordeaux tasting - with a few pirates: Linear, primary, tannic, and a little annoyed (or maybe that was me being annoyed at it), the 2015 was a wine I had Coravin’d the day prior to sample it to see just where it was at. Peeved was where it was at then. The next day, I popped the cork a few hours before the tasting event, recorked it, shook it up a bit, and left it open in the bottle in hopes it might shock it to life. I feared decanting it might shut it completely down. By the time of the event, it had started to open up a bit more, with bitter blackberry, black currant, dusty spice, and river rock notes peeking out. The bottle of this I had earlier in the month seemed much more red-fruited. This bottle had black fruit, but also maintained a classical profile with bits of cedar and red-currant entering the picture. As my previous note mentions, this is a wine that should benefit with a bit of age. It is begrudgingly starting to open up. Profile-wise, I preferred this 2015 to the 1996 Cases next to it, but they were both good for different reasons.
By day two and three on this same bottle, the leftovers had completely shut down. It’s best performance was on the night of the tasting toward the end of the evening. This wasn’t a showstopper overall, but it has a sophistication that I’m drawn to. 95-ish+ points from me.
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Comment posted by Mark1npt:
11/2/2022 3:59:00 PM - Day 2 and 3 are not unlike our own Napa cabs that turn black and bitter over a night or two....all requiring more time to come back to that enjoyable zone we love them in. These animals can be so difficult to deal with! This one will 'circle back', too! In 10+ more years......