Remarkable. Fresh, round, powerful and....beautiful. After 30 minutes of decanting, this continued to develop in the glass for the next hour. The freshness and red fruits kept cascading through the long, long finish. This kept it's structure and if anything got better as time went on. Thank you MB & AH!
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The ‘49 Léoville Las Cases, from a Sanders bottling with a very high shoulder fill, shows some unclean, pongy notes which luckily dissipate with 5-10 minutes in the glass, leaving a surprisingly dense dried red and black cherry nose. The fruit is joined by black, damp earth, old wood, and chestnut in an appealing profile. It’s actually amazing what depth of fruit this still possesses; this is much more of an iron fist in an iron glove than most '49s, which usually offer such energy and naturally sweet appeal. Unlike others from the vintage, this is admired if not adored.
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Beautiful black cherry nose, black cherry fruit, leathery and meaty flavors, slight tannins, very well structured, drinking beautifully, 3rd best wine of evening in line up including 1959 Mouton and 1961 Latour
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When mature Bordeaux gets old, it exchanges most of its fruit for secondary aromas with truffle, forest floor, earth, cigar smoke, cedar chest and often leaves just a hint of red cherries. That is exactly what happened to this, older wine. Medium bodied and marked by high acidity, well stored bottles could last, but it is not going to improve.
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5/20/2023 - PDavisMarble wrote: 95 Points
Remarkable. Fresh, round, powerful and....beautiful. After 30 minutes of decanting, this continued to develop in the glass for the next hour. The freshness and red fruits kept cascading through the long, long finish. This kept it's structure and if anything got better as time went on. Thank you MB & AH!
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5/20/2023 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points
The ‘49 Léoville Las Cases, from a Sanders bottling with a very high shoulder fill, shows some unclean, pongy notes which luckily dissipate with 5-10 minutes in the glass, leaving a surprisingly dense dried red and black cherry nose. The fruit is joined by black, damp earth, old wood, and chestnut in an appealing profile. It’s actually amazing what depth of fruit this still possesses; this is much more of an iron fist in an iron glove than most '49s, which usually offer such energy and naturally sweet appeal. Unlike others from the vintage, this is admired if not adored.
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12/7/2013 - Amerique wrote: 95 Points
Beautiful black cherry nose, black cherry fruit, leathery and meaty flavors, slight tannins, very well structured, drinking beautifully, 3rd best wine of evening in line up including 1959 Mouton and 1961 Latour
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5/21/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 85 Points
When mature Bordeaux gets old, it exchanges most of its fruit for secondary aromas with truffle, forest floor, earth, cigar smoke, cedar chest and often leaves just a hint of red cherries. That is exactly what happened to this, older wine. Medium bodied and marked by high acidity, well stored bottles could last, but it is not going to improve.
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