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Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2024

Name: Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2024
Brand: Chateau Leoville Las Cases
SKU: ENP10018
Price: 244.61 NZD
Availability: InStock

First payment

$244.61

Estimated second payment: $ 43.55

Total estimated payment: $288.16

This wine is offered En Primeur, the first payment due in August this year. The second payment containing the duty and taxes is due on arrival to New Zealand in two years time. The estimated second payment and estimated total are shown here.

93-95/100William Kelley

One of the wines of the vintage, and certainly one that's likely to number among the longest-lived, is the 2024 Léoville Las Cases, a blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc and 5% Merlot that attained 13.1% alcohol. Unwinding in the glass with a pure, intense bouquet of cassis, violets and pencil shavings, it's medium to full-bodied, with terrific mid-palate density and concentration but also a seamless integration of tannin and acidity that's especially rare this year, concluding with a long, penetrating finish. Jean-Hubert Delon observes that the 2024 shares "the aromas and flavors of the 1986," defined by Cabernet Sauvignon ripened at the end of the growing season, though of course the 2024, lacking the huge power and structure of that vintage, is much more amiable than the 1986.

93-95/100 Neal Martin

The 2024 Léoville Las Cases was picked between September 30 and October 9 at 31 hl/ha (compare that to 11 hl/ha next door at Latour!). It is aged for 18 months in 75% new oak barrels with 6.3% pressed wine. It has a backward, almost surly bouquet with introverted black fruit, cedar, touches of cumin and light sea spray scents. Superb delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with less structure than the last two vintages, yet it upholds wonderful balance with lace-like tannins. With crisp black fruit and beautifully assimilated new oak, this fans out towards the finish. It is paradoxically a more conservative Las Cases in keeping with the limitations of the growing season, but I suspect it will gain weight and sustain with time in barrel. 2031 - 2050

93-96/100 Thomas Parker MW

Bright purple colour, spicy and peppery blocks of fruit on the nose, this is tightly coiled for the vintage, feeling like a sultry but dark-fruited wine with brambles as well as berries coming through. Cedary, cool and fine. Dense on entry, this has old school Cabernet proportions, narrow and firm. High energy and high density for the vintage. Very firm with precise, deep tannins and acidity. It leaves it a little hard to penetrate at the moment, but if everything knits together it should turn out very well. The compacted layers just need to unfurl, but for now this is a very tight, focused and long wine with good potential.

94/100 Jane Anson

Medium to full intensity, vivid plum with vibrant violet around the rim, ink, black tea, chamomile flowers, slate, graphite, redcurrant, rose petals, cassis, bilberry, raspberry leaf, delivers the texture, tension and complexity that you expect from this level of estate in any vintage, and it is a success, reserved, slim and savoury with ageing potential. Arnaud Delon now at the estate, working alongside his father Jean-Hubert Delon. 31hl/ha yield. New cellars now in operation for the winemaking, 75% new oak. 3.60 pH. 31 hl/ha. 6.3% press wine. Harvest 30 September to 9 October.

94-96/100 Antonio Galloni

The 2024 Léoville Las-Cases is gorgeous. All the Las-Cases signatures are present, just dialed down a touch. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, grilled herbs, graphite and menthol are all beautifully delineated. The 2024 is distinguished by its precision and total class. Time in the glass brings out the wine's intensely floral, spice-inflected aromatics. Brisk acids and bracing mineral notes wrap it all together in style. I can't wait to taste this from bottle. 2034-2054.

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