1981 Château Léoville Las Cases

Community Tasting Notes (114) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  5/13/2024 - Barbalax Likes this wine: 96 Points

  I have had this wine a couple of times before without any major success, but this bottle was very different. Bought by my dad on release and have been laying in the same spot in a perfect cellar since.
  
  Slightly thin to start with but the wine fills up over hours. Elegance and balance. Had it with a Latour 1983 that did not have a chance tonight.

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  3/10/2024 - Carson.McEvoy wrote: flawed

  I didn't have the highest expectations for this wine, despite it being from Léoville Las Cases. Unfortunately, it didn't impress on this occasion. It seemed a bit cooked, with minimal fruit, burnt notes, and lacking in power. It was drinkable and didn't go to waste throughout the evening, but it wasn't remarkable. Oh well! It's always a privilege to open bottles like this. Onto the next!

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  12/9/2023 - tinybubbles wrote: 87 Points

  From magnum. Somewhat underwhelming. Intact but quite thin in most respects on the palate. Nose delicate but more rewarding.

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  5/8/2023 - Geoff7777 wrote:

  Lunch at Cucinetta 5 May 2023: Extremely youthful black red in colour, this looks like a post 2000 not an '81. Nose of black currants, lead pencil, faint strawberry and with the structure dominating the fruit, the tannin and acidity demanding protein. Wonderfully preserved and probably at best now 18.

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  3/30/2023 - Mascarello59 wrote:

  A bit awkward and closed with too much greenness. Fruit still there though. Not much more of notes but the overall impression was too green.

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