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Vintage | 1986 |
Rating | 95-100 |
Classification | Médoc - 2ème Cru Classé |
Region | Bordeaux |
Appellation | Saint Julien |
Colour | Red |
Volume | 0.75 l |
Price | More than 300 € |
Château | Leoville Las Cases |
Country | France |
Saint Julien
CHÂTEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 1986
Pauillac
Pomerol
Pauillac
Pomerol
Pauillac
CHÂTEAU GRAND PUY DUCASSE 1986
Pauillac
CHÂTEAU MOUTON BARONNE PHILIPPE 1986
Pauillac
PAUL JABOULET AINE La Chapelle 1986
Hermitage Rouge
Pauillac
Firm and focused, with beautifully articulated currant, raspberry and nutmeg aromas and flavors; very supple for such a lean-textured Bordeaux.
The 1986 Leoville-Las Cases, which Delon continues to believe is his finest vintage in the eighties (even eclipsing the 1982), still exhibits a blackpurple color with no signs of age. The nose offers up aromas of exceptionally ripe cassis fruit intertwined with scents of vanillin, minerals, and spices. The wine is full-bodied, exceptionally well-delineated, and phenomenally concentrated. Still unevolved and youthful, this is one of the most profound Leoville-Las-Cases, but for my palate, it remains a notch behind both the 1982 and 1996.
(11-1995) Attractive, fragrant though still peppery, with cedary nose;a fine, firm, dry wine.