1990 Château Léoville Las Cases

Community Tasting Notes (510) Avg Score: 95.1 points

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  5/16/2024 - Buyer and cellar Likes this wine: 96 Points

  A fantastic bottle. Purchased almost two decades ago in St. Helena. Loved its pencil shavings and cedar and dark fruit. Had this at a dinner hosted by K&L and Vinovault where a bunch of great bottles were circulating and several thought it was one of the wines of the night.

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  4/26/2024 - Tonythefish wrote:

  At base of neck. Low to medium fruit, but drank beautifully after being open for about 40 minutes. A lot of floral notes, with light hints of spice. 30 second finish

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  4/12/2024 - mxpbuy Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Cork soaked. Base neck fill. Very little sediment. A relatively early maturing Las Cases. Classic tobacco and graphite on the nose and palate with elegantly ripe black and red fruits. Some sweet vanilla Oak and a 20 second finish. Not my favorite Las Cases and I like this wine more some years ago. I was hoping for more depth of flavors and length of finish. Perhaps this was just a slightly off bottle, but for those still waiting on their '82s and '86s, this one is ready now.

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  3/18/2024 - Rob Hansult Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Med garnet w/some ruby. Rich soy/umami, cherry sauce, beef blood, pencil lead. Good ripeness; med intensity. Mostly resolved tannins.

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  3/17/2024 - ove_stammrud wrote:

  Klar, dyp og fantastisk parfymert; med nyanser av fermentert tobakk, bråtebrann og blåbær smeltet sammen i kraft og eleganse. Hint av kvernet kaffe i munnen, sammen med sunn frukt og toner av vanilje. Vinen er både frisk og saftig, med en imponerende kompleksitet som strekker seg fra en luftig og forlokkende rødlig eleganse i retning burgund, til en fløyelsaktig munnfølelse med silkeaktig finish. Topp kvalitet

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