Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019

So structured for the vintage, but there's freshness and vibrancy from the acidity. Full-bodied, incredibly creamy and polished. Plush silk. Extremely long, linear and compact.

This is an immense wine. Made from 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, it shows excellent structure, richness and aging potential. The tannins are ripe, showing the gentlest of extraction and are what is going to drive this wine for many years.

I love it when a wine steals up on you, and you get that here, taking its time on the first attack and then rapidly expanding outwards and upwards. Undoubtedly it will knit down as Las Cases can't help but do, but there is a creamy, almost caramel side hiding among the tannins. Beautiful power and layers of charcoal, slate, crushed stones, cassis, bilberry and tobacco all displayed elegance and tension.