1953 Château Léoville Las Cases

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  12/22/2021 - Marc C Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Très belle aromatique : mine de crayon, fruits rouges très mûrs, cuir frais, bois précieux. J'aime beaucoup !
  Belle puissance, de la profondeur et de l'ampleur avec des tanins sont fondus
  Bonne longueur mais marquée par les bretts qui finissent par tout emporter.
  
  Dommage que les belles qualités de ce vin soient gâchées par cette finale...

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  10/13/2020 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 96 Points

  1939 Cheval Blanc Dinner....despite a typhoon. (L'Envol Restaurant, St. Regis Hotel, Wan Chai, Hong Kong): Cloudy, slightly faded semi-transparent dusky ruby.... looks old. Nose is immediately WOW!....beautiful new shoe leather, white shoe cream, cedar smoke and deep confit red fruit like a jelly made by a Michelin*** chef. Really beguiling. Palate is ridiculously fully mature but still hitting on all cylinders.... subtle, elegant, alive and alluring with predominantly cherries purity of fruit. Almost no tertiary elements except that the tannin is gone but the remainder is so floral, fresh and elegant so there is a contradiction with my initial impression....who cares! The finish is subtly long and very reverberant ‘inside the head’ on the finale. All natural from the original release and it showed....like driving an original Porsche 911 from the 1960s whereas the 'reconditioned' 1939 Cheval Blanc drank alongside it feels more like a Singer 911, re-built but still very true to its original. For me the Las Cases won it on the night but by a small margin and who really cares when you have the rare opportunity to drink two such rare wines side by side.

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  1/28/2018 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 86 Points

  Youngest Bordeaux of the night and from this cellar at least it was still short of that mature wine payoff. A big-boned and muscular Bordeaux as Las Cases so often is but unfortunately the result here is something kind of monolithic. It offers developed red-toned material past the fruit but not yet into anything else except for a smoky, ashen edge, which lends it some austerity. I left it in the glass awhile hoping for some development, and it did become more satisfying than I'm letting on, but never really blossomed. It just shook off some of the cobwebs and a bit of brothiness surfacing on the sides gave it somewhat more savor and gloss.

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  2/24/2017 - dcwino wrote: flawed

  The Second Avery Family Cellar Wine Dinner - Really old wines (The Grill Room at the Rosewood DC): Madeirized. Exceptional concentration, however.

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