An excellent value wine from the Léoville Las Cases estate. Lovely, plump, exotic wine – great Merlot! Real intensity of rich plum and black cherry fruit. Mineral base comes through on the finish. Classy. (60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon.)

Solid second wine with stone and mineral aromas and flavors. Full body, firm and silky tannins. Reserved and very tight. 60% merlot and the rest cabernet sauvignon.

The 2015 Le Petit Lion is layered, silky and super-expressive, with lovely aromatic nuance, nicely layered fruit and fine overall balance. Beautifully nuanced and expressive, with striking interplay of aromatics, fruit and structure, the 2015 Petit Lion is a very pretty second wine well worth taking a look at. vinous.com, February 2018

The 2015 Le Petit Lion is a blend of 40% Cabernet Sauvignon and 60% Merlot cropped at 39 hl/ha and matured in 30% new oak. It consists of younger vines from Leoville Las Cases, plus some of the old Merlot vines (which is why there is only 6% in the Grand Vin). It has quite a broody bouquet at first, though it opens up over the course of five to ten minutes, offering blackberry, bilberry, tar and graphite aromas, erring a little towards Pauillac in style. The palate is medium-bodied with quite firm tannin in the mouth, a keen thread of acidity, noticeable graphite notes again towards the finish that reinforces that Pauillac-like semblance. This is a commendable deuxième vin, one bolstered by that old Merlot vine this year.

40% young Cabernet Sauvignon, 60% old Merlot (because Las Cases does not have much Merlot). 30% new oak.
Mid crimson. Spicy, soft nose - really rather charming. Transparent and much more accessible than Las Cases. Racy. Sells for a little less than Clos du Marquis. 13.85%
Drink 2023-2032