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1981 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès

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3/31/2024 - asgerG wrote: 85 points

PnP
Basically over the hill, but possesses delicate tertiary notes. Tannins totally resolved.

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2009 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Gran Reserva La Scala

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2/2/2024 - jbedard wrote: 92 points

Great Carb-Sauv from Penedes. Enjoyed with family. Ready but if you are patient possibly good until 2027.

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2016 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva Le Havre

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1/14/2022 - SuperSomm wrote: NR

Deep ruby red colour. Medium (+) and developing nose with blackcurrant, vanilla, forest floor, leather and clove. Medium (+) taste of blackcurrant, leather, forest floor, blackberry and clove. Medium (+) long and dry finish. Medium acidity. Medium (+) tannins. Full body. A very good Spanish Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now or over the next five years. Goes well with beef or lamb.

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2004 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva

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1/14/2022 - SuperSomm wrote: NR

Deep ruby red colour. Medium (+) and developing nose with tobacco, blackcurrant, cigar box, forest floor, leather and clove. Medium taste of blackcurrant, tobacco, cigar box, leather, clove and forest floor. Long and dry finish. High acidity. High tannins. Full body. A very good and well aged Spanish Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva on a magnum bottle. Drink now or over the next ten years. Goes well with beef or lamb.

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1997 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva

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1/14/2022 - SuperSomm wrote: NR

Full garnet colour. Medium (+) and developed nose with raisins, tobacco, meat, forest floor, rosemary, sage, vanilla and eucalyptus. Medium taste of raisins, tobacco, meat, forest floor, rosemary and sage. Long and dry finish. Medium (+) acidity. High tannins. Full body. A very good and well matured Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva. Drink now or over the next couple of years. Goes well with beef or lamb.

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2013 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Gran Reserva La Scala

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1/14/2022 - SuperSomm wrote: NR

Deep ruby red colour. Pronounced and developing nose with blackcurrant, black plum, black cherry, nutmeg, chocolate, vanilla, eucalyptus and smoke. Pronounced taste of blackcurrant, black plum, nutmeg chocolate, vanilla, eucalyptus and smoke. Long and dry finish. High acidity. High tannins. Full body. A very good and well made Gran Reserva. Drink now or over the next ten years. Goes well with beef or lamb.

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2015 Jean León Merlot Penedès Vinya Palau

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1/14/2022 - SuperSomm wrote: NR

Medium ruby red colour. Medium (+) and developing nose with blackberry, black plum, red plum, chocolate and forest floor. Medium taste of black plum, blackberry, red plum, forest floor, chocolate, smoke and leather. Medium (+) long and dry finish. High acidity. Medium tannins. Full body. A very good Spanish Merlot that is well matured. Drink now or over the next five years. Goes well with beef or lamb.

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2019 Jean León Merlot 3055

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1/14/2022 - SuperSomm wrote: NR

Medium ruby red colour. Medium and developing nose with red plum, black pepper, red cherry, cinnamon, clove and smoke. Medium taste of red plum, leather, black pepper, red cherry and smoke. Medium long and dry finish. Medium acidity. Medium tannins. Full body. A good Spanish blend that lacks some length and complexity. Drink now or over the next couple of years. Goes well with beef or lamb.

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2013 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Gran Reserva La Scala

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4/30/2023 - jan erik wrote: 92 points

- Crimsom color - Still young CS with Rioja tones. Keep for longer

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1979 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva

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4/29/2023 - StefanAkiko wrote: 91 points

Cork went down as I touched it. Bled through capsule. Cost me less than a €uro as it was freighted with 4 other btls.

Œil: deep maturity (robe: dark mahogany)

Still has a happy, friendly tannic bite. Superbly balanced and beautifully oaked CS all the way. Wow! Blinded, I'd have guessed... I dunno... A better Graves from an odd 90'ies vintage...

Quite a surprisingly good wine from my ignorance of not expecting more...

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2011 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Gran Reserva La Scala

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3/26/2023 - El_Dougo Likes this wine: 91 points

Intense, aromatic, earthy, licorice, black currant. Lot of complexity. New world ripeness.
Only 9,000 bottles. 27 months in French oak although it’s not overpowering in the least.
High tannins, ripe fruit. Herbaceous. This can still age.

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1975 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès

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2/24/2023 - racerchris Likes this wine: 94 points

After 40 some years in a dark corner, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say this may be past peak.

But you would never know it by the high fill, or the tight cork, or the deep red, almost black color on decanting. The clove dominated wood spice aroma was some indication of the wine's maturity however.
On the palate the wine is youthful, juicy, and with substantial grip.
Black cherries, cloves, somewhat thin mouthfeel initially, and a long dry finish.
As the wine opened up, a little sweetness to the fruit developed, along with more volume, complexity and earthiness, and the tannin also came forward a bit. Truly enjoyable to drink by itself, and would likely pair well with a good steak or burger.

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2015 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Gran Reserva La Scala

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1/12/2023 - Rabley Heath Likes this wine: 91 points

Full body. Chocolate, candy and mint aromas. Spicy and plummy palate. Soft tannins. Juicy. Good balance with nice acidity but a little one dimensional aftertaste.
Purchased at Barcelona airport.

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2020 Jean León Merlot 3055

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12/29/2022 - villeP Likes this wine: 80 points

Jammy and tasty. Goes well with pizza.

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1999 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva

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11/11/2022 - Ernestas Likes this wine: 93 points

Some extreme fragrance is bursting from this profound intense, dense, well balanced and matured CS with 15% CF. Perfumed aroma of prunes, chokeberry, plums, chocolate, roasted herbs, liquorice, sweet tobacco, cedar. Full body, every sip packs a punch with concentrated, complex and intense flavours which evolves with time showing yet another layer after layer. All the promises from aroma are there and more with notes of caramel, toffee and chocolate, concludes with firm well structured tannins and long finish.

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2000 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Gran Reserva La Scala

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9/25/2022 - FEDEVIDAL Does not like this wine: 70 points

Color granate muy oscuro y ligeramente atejado. Aroma medio, fruta pequeña de bosque, apuntes minerales , madera. Boca incisiva , sin comida francamente agresiva, acidez hiriente, madera y alcohol, se entremezclan en un diabólico aquelarre

Recuerdo los magníficos Cabernet Sauvignon, elegantes , equilibrados, finos, que se hacían aquí por los años 80 y que quedan en la memoria como recuerdos de mejores tiempos.

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2009 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Gran Reserva La Scala

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8/20/2022 - maxima wrote: 88 points

Fermé à double-tour.
....à revoir!

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1979 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès

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5/12/2022 - forceberry wrote: flawed

12% alcohol. Bottle #223 of I don't know how many. Tasted half-blind from a magnum.

Dense, quite opaque reddish-brown color with an aged syrupy hue. The nose feels pungent and quite oxidized with flavors of soy sauce, some fried porcini mushrooms, a little bit of syrupy molasses, light pruney tones and a hint of dried chanterelles. The wine is round, ripe and mellow on the palate with a medium-to-moderately full body and oxidative, sweet-toned flavors of soy sauce, some beef jerky, a little bit of pruney dark fruit, light mushroomy notes of funnel chanterelle, a hint of syrupy molasses and a ferrous touch of blood. The acidity feels medium-to-moderately high and somewhat soft, whereas the tannins come across as tough and grippy. The finish is dry, tough and grippy with oxidized flavors of raisins and soy sauce, some beef jerky, a little bit of earth, light sweet notes of dried cranberries and a hint of fried mushrooms.

I had no high expectations of the wine and it still didn't manage to match them. Past its peak and oxidized. Avoid.

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1997 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva

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6/12/2022 - TintoDelPais wrote: flawed

Corked. TCA on the nose. Bland taste.

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2013 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Gran Reserva La Scala

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4/15/2022 - FEDEVIDAL wrote: 87 points

En una época lejana, un señor de Santander llamado Ceferino Carrión, junto con un amigo llamado Jaume Rovira se hicieron con unas cepas en Burdeos y años después en una finca del Penedés llamada La Scala consiguieron producir uno de los mejores Cabernet Sauvignon del mundo (y si alguien no se lo cree que lo pregunte a Donald Reagan).

Hoy en día, en este mismo lugar se produce un Cabernet Sauvignon que está bien pero nada más. El aroma con mucha fruta roja y negra, en boca incisivo y algo agresivo con mucha madera. Un buen vino, que se debe bien, sin personalidad definida y en el que no hay rastro de lo que fue. Si encuentra una botella de hasta 1995 , tiene usted un tesoro en las manos.

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1995 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva

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11/13/2021 - asgerG wrote: 88 points

1.5L; PnP. No formal notes but an ok mature (very) mellow wine that is on its way downwards.

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2015 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva Le Havre

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9/25/2021 - J+B_Wines wrote: 90 points

Delightful

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1995 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva

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9/23/2021 - asgerG wrote: 91 points

CV from magnum. Beautiful dark brick colour, 5. Generous complex bouquet, mellow mature spicy, bit of farmyard. Harmonious on the palate, almost resolved tannins, still some fruit, airy and elegant finish. Drink now-onwards.

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2006 Jean León Cabernet Sauvignon Penedès Reserva

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9/5/2021 - adnorthup wrote: NR

1.5 hour decant, color shows no sign of age. Nose has loads of dark currant and forest floor. A little volatile acidity, but not terribly detracting. Good cassis, violets (?), more of the forest floor. Like a nice claret.

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2019 Jean León Chardonnay 3055

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8/31/2021 - SixHedgehogs Likes this wine: 88 points

Pale yellow. Aroma of lime and vanilla. Soft fruit flavour flavour. Bright acidity.

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