Leoville Las Cases 雄獅 2023 (12x75cl OWC)

Description

By Wine Maniacs in 2024 (WM99)
A magnificent wine, detailed and showing amazing energy. Vibrant mid-palalte, the evenly distributed layers of flavour create a sensation of grandeur. Superbly fine tannins coat the mouth with laserlike precision. A maginficent, clearly defined grand wine.

By Jeff Leve of The Wine Cellar Insider in 2026 (JL97)
It takes just a bit of effort to explore the perfume, before revealing its essence of ripe blackberries, cigar wrapper, cassis, flowers, espresso, and a variety of spices. Clearly traditional in style, but not harsh, green, or dry. Instead, the wine is restrained, elegant, and regal, with layers of ripe, dark fruits, minerality, cherries, and dried herbs. One of the longest-lived wines of the vintage, but for Leoville Las Cases, it will drink well before or around 10 years of age. It can also evolve for 30 years or more. Made from a blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Merlot. This marks only the third time in the estate’s history that the blend contains more Cabernet Franc than Merlot. It is also the smallest amount of Merlot ever placed into the Grand Vin. Drink from 2030-2065.

By Wine Enthusiast in 2024 (WE97-99)
Barrel Sample. With 86% of the blend, this is a Cabernet Sauvignon wine. With its fragrant fruit aromas and well-packed black-currant flavors, the wine has succulence, allied to tannins. The wine’s impressive structure goes with its stylish character giving plenty of aging.

By Wine Advocate in 2026 (WA96+)
The 2023 Léoville Las Cases has turned out very well, offering up classic notes of cassis, violets, pencil shavings and mint, followed by a medium- to full-bodied, dense and layered palate that’s classically proportioned, seamless and penetrating. Its sweet tannins are even better integrated than they were in cask, and while this remains a comparatively structured wine for the vintage, it will be more youthfully approachable than I anticipated. Drink 2030-2060