Tasting Notes and Scores
The 2008 Léoville Las Cases has a backward, broody, earthy bouquet with intense tobacco and graphite aromas, more like a Pauillac than a Saint Julien, no surprise given that it lies on the border. The palate is very impressive: layers of tobacco-tinged black fruit, sea salt and graphite. This is very precise and harmonious with a persistent and multi-layered finish that leaves you mightily impressed. (Tasted at BI Wine & Spirit’s annual 10-Year On tasting.)
– vinous.com, Feb 2018
Neal Martin
Quality 945 | Brand 994 | Economics 919 |
buzz brand, investment staple
Quality: The highest Quality score in its peer group for the 2008 vintage, at 945 compared to a peer group average of 717
Brand: Strong restaurant presence, featuring on 42 of the world's top wine lists, including Tim Raue
Economics: Above its peer group average price of £39 for the 2008 vintage
Production: Lower production than its peer group average of 186,000 bottles
- www.wine-lister.com June 2017
Wine Lister
A classic style of Las Cases that is somewhat masculine for the vintage, tannic and backward, and less formidably concentrated than the 2009 or 2010, the 2008 needs 7-8 years of cellaring. Dense purple, the aromatics are closed, but with coaxing and aggressive swirling, notes of crushed rock, black currants and some forest floor notes emerge. Impressively built, medium to full-bodied, layered and stunningly concentrated, this is a sleeper vintage for Leoville Las Cases that should improve considerably, given how closed it was the day I tasted it. It is another 30+ year wine from proprietor Jean-Hubert Delon.
Robert Parker (Wine Advocate #194, May 2011)
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