2019 Le Petit Lion de Las Cases 75CL

Saint-Julien

₱5,995
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Wine Rating: RP 90 points
Drink by: 2021 - 2041

The 2019 Le Petit Lion is excellent, offering up notes of dark berries, plums, pencil shavings and loamy soil, followed by a medium to full-bodied, deep and lively palate that’s nicely concentrated, concluding with a long, saline finish. It’s produced from vines within the clos of Léoville-Las Cases itself—mainly young-vine Cabernet Sauvignon and old-vine, less optimally exposed Merlot in a block that borders Latour.

"In recent years, several vineyard plots on our Saint-Julien terroirs were uprooted and replanted, and these are now coming into production. To preserve the quality level of the Grand Vin, Château Léoville-Las Cases therefore decided it would create a second wine, from the 2007 vintage.

The Petit Lion shares the philosophy of its two elder siblings; it is vinified and aged in order to preserve its fresh, ripe fruit flavors throughout its life. However, it is designed as a second wine, and is therefore made to be more accessible and for earlier drinking, with a significant proportion of Merlot used in the blend."