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Producer: Château Léoville Las Cases
Vintage: 2015
Country: France
Region: Saint-Julien
Categorie: red wine
Bottle size: 75 cl.
Ripeness: 2030 - 2055
Taste: trocken
Winestyle: kräftig & würzig
Food recommendation: reife Hartkäse, Wildbraten, Kalbsbraten mit Morcheln, Lammgigot mit Kartoffelgratin, Geschmorte Gerichte, Festtagsgericht
With his excellent terroir knowledge, he wants to produce wines that reflect their origin as well as possible. They are complex, intense wines with exceptionally great depth. Some critics consider Léoville-Las-Cases to be one of Bordeaux's biggest wines, so the wine actually plays in the Premiers Crus league. The wines age well accordingly: Ideally, the first bottle of Léoville Las Cases is only uncorked after 10 to 15 years, and certain vintages can be stored well and happily for 50 or more years.
Approx. 20 months barrique aging (25% new wood).
The vineyards of Léoville-Las-Cases were among the oldest of the Médoc and were part of the "Mont Moytié" in the 17th century. At that time, the estate was owned by Blaise Alexandre de Gasq, ruler of Léoville. He made his wine one of the best Grand Crus and improved the qualities in the vineyard as well as in the cellar. Shortly before the French Revolution, his mission was accomplished. After his death, he left behind a winery whose wines were in no way inferior in quality and price to those of Lafite and Latour. During the revolution, the 300 hectares of vineyards were divided, a quarter became today's Château Léoville-Barton. In 1840, a small portion of the vines went to the Baron de Poyferré. But most of the original good went to Pierre-Jean, the Marquis of Las Cases. As part of the classification in 1855, all three Léoville goods were classified as 2eme Grand Cru Classé. In 1900, the Las Cases family separated from the property, the then administrator took over and later passed it on to his son-in-law André Delon. Today it is the charismatic Jean-Hubert Delon who steers the Château Léoville-Las-Cases and his two other estates, Château Nénin and Château Potensac, with an iron hand.
The terroir is complex. It consists of a quaternary gravel surface which rests on sandy-loamy and calcareous pebble-clay substrates. The nearby Gironde, on which you have a spectacular view from the estate, is partly responsible for the unbelievable soil diversity of Château Léoville-Las-Cases. In the course of time it has superimposed gravel on the complex, geological underlayers. The river also allows a microclimate, which supports an early ripening of the grapes and a good antifreeze.
