2016 Château Léoville Las Cases

Community Tasting Note

havana4 🍾🍇 wrote:

89 Points

Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 1 hour decant. Never really opened up at all. Drank over the course of 2 hours. slightly acidic and out of balance. Not a lot of structure. Fruits not delineated but instead very faint. Finish extremely short. Like this is just closing down now for awhile. But I have 7 more bottles so we will check back in a year and see if consistent with this note.

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Comment posted by LiteItOnFire:

9/30/2023 8:15:00 PM - ‘16s, Las Cases is no exception, are built for the ages. This wine will need a boat load of time 10 years I would guess before it is ready for business. The most recent vintages of Las Cases like 2022 are much more assessable early.
Comment posted by havana4 🍾🍇:

9/30/2023 8:24:00 PM - Yes.. but have you had this particular wine? It just had hardly any tannic structure to support longer ageing. It tasted very watery.
Comment posted by LiteItOnFire:

9/30/2023 9:03:00 PM - Hmmm that doesn’t seem how I would forecast this wine to be- no I haven’t. That’s atypical to what I would have expected.
Comment posted by havana4 🍾🍇:

9/30/2023 9:15:00 PM - Exactly... especially based on most other reviews. It was just "thin" . Not necessarily closed down but just weak and muted. No identifiable flaws detected, but maybe just an off bottle.
Comment posted by LiteItOnFire:

9/30/2023 9:28:00 PM - Hmmm well that sucks. Hopefully an anomaly and the rest will growth girth with age… yep dream on that.
Comment posted by havana4 🍾🍇:

9/30/2023 9:34:00 PM - You had me at girth. Great descriptor for a BIG wine. This wine is not that , but you may have just emboldened my ego.
Comment posted by LiteItOnFire:

9/30/2023 9:35:00 PM - I know feel like this belongs in playboy articles lol
Comment posted by Pietro G.:

2/23/2024 10:29:00 PM - A flawed bottle for sure.