Community Tasting Note
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Ozen Likes this wine: 100 points
May 16, 2021 - Leoville Las Cases at its very best, but equally; Bordeaux as good as it gets. One of the best wines, bottles I have ever tasted.
We let it breath for a couple of hours and it became sensational: Perfectly in the drinking window now. Incredibly rich, ripe fruit palette, strawberries coulis, with an undercurrent of dark berries, slightly sweet (after the Gloria 2009) but absolutely perfectly in balance. A truly memorable experience, if not a real food orgasm of a wine.
Some of my friends have a bit of a love hate relationship with Leoville Las Cases as it can display some austerity and not giving much in its earlier years. In my experience that largely is a matter of having the patience to hitting the drinking window which takes time with LLC and is for sure worth the wait, and to a lesser extent letting it breath a few hours before tasting. But when you have the patience to wait this is an absolute master piece of a wine. The 1990 is at its incredible peak right now. You have to try this at least once!7 people found this helpful 3,726 views
4 Comments
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D_RICH commented:
5/16/21, 6:45 AM - Thank you for your note. This is great to hear!
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Dibbs commented:
6/14/21, 1:25 AM - I am planning to open a bottle this weekend. When you mentioned, "let it breathe for a couple of hours", was it in the bottle or decanter? Thanks a lot!
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Ozen commented:
6/14/21, 8:21 AM - In the bottle, but just for reference it was even better the 2nd day (some glasses poured first day) and kept it overnight with a cork in the bottle.
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Dibbs commented:
6/14/21, 5:35 PM - Thanks a lot, probably gonna give it 1hr on the decanter first :)