1998 Château Léoville Las Cases

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86 Points

Saturday, October 10, 2015 - A pleasant wine, though totally uninspiring and one dimensional without any finesse or memorable notes. Consumed with a delicious beef stew. Slightly dusty tannins, lack of focus on what should have been a more pronounced fruit element. Wish I could find something better to say about this wine. My bottle was stored perfectly and had a high neck fill. Compare this Leoville to a $35 Bordeaux in a blind test and come away with a toss-up. The current price is way out of line with what you're getting in the bottle. There are plenty of classified wines that leave you wondering what the workers at the chateaus were doing while they were making the wine that year, and this is such an example. I suggest that nobody waste his/her time with this vintage for the above reasons.

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