Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2005 Saint-Julien Grand Cru Classe

Château Léoville Las Cases 2005

Name: Château Léoville Las Cases 2005
Brand: Château Léoville Las Cases
SKU: PGC-1345
Price: 417.29 USD
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 4.85 (1 reviews)

France - Bordeaux - Saint-Julien - 2ème Grand Cru Classé - Château Léoville Las Cases

4.85/5 Critics notes (1)

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Bottle 0.75L

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Data sheets

Grape varieties

Cabernet Sauvignon 88%

Cabernet Franc 5%

Merlot 7

Producer

Château Léoville Las Cases

Country

France

Region

Bordeaux

Appellation

Saint-Julien

Classification

2ème Grand Cru Classé

Terroir

Left Bank

Vintage

2005

Color

Red

Alcohol level

13°

Type of aging

In oak barrels

Operating temperature

Between 16° and 18° C

Storage

Bottle lying down

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Château Léoville Las Cases

A great name in Bordeaux vineyards, no longer in need of introduction, rightly dubbed the "Premier des Seconds crus". A very old Médoc property, Domaine was seized during the French Revolution, then divided into three Léoville estates between 1826 and 1840: Barton and Poyferré and Las Cases, the original Domaine of Marquis Pierre-Jean Las Cases.

During the 1855 classification for the Paris Universal Exhibition, Château Léoville Las Cases was crowned Second Grand Cru Classé, and became the property of the Delon family at the end of the century. Today, Jean-Hubert Delon is in charge of its management.

The vineyard of Domaine covers some 60 hectares, 55 of which are fully enclosed within the famous Las Cases enclosure, on a high-quality terroir facing the Gironde estuary. The soils are composed of gravel and the subsoils are gravelly-sandy, containing a proportion of clay. The grape varieties are 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot and 16% Cabernet Franc, with an average age of 30 years. The wines are aged for 18 months in 50% new barrels.

Since 2007, Domaine has produced a Second wine, Petit Lion du Marquis de Las Cases.

The wines of Léoville Las Cases have left their mark on the wine world, asserting themselves as complex, refined and profound, aging with elegance.

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Critics Château Léoville Las Cases 2005.

Wine Advocate - Robert Parker

97/100

Description +

Description Château Léoville Las Cases 2005.

2005, a mythical vintage which gave birth to this splendid second Grand Cru Classé Saint Julien and which does not demerit from its predecessors in qualitative terms quite the contrary because it is in itself a very great one.

The robe is a very deep ruby with some light purple reflections.

On the nose as well as on the palate: very nice touches of small black fruits such as blackcurrant, wild blackberry, black cherry from the Basque country in perfect balance with these same flavors with a very long and silky finish. Elegant tannins mixed with fine points of vanilla wood.

This is a great wine at its peak that will last at least another twenty years.

The bottles will be kept lying down, protected from light and noise with an optimal hygrometric degree around 70%.

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