Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml Coming in around 13% alcohol

Coming in around 13% alcohol

this wine should evolve easily for 20 or more years

powerful finish

although I am told contracts with other growers who purchase fruit will remain in place

Vineyard notes: "The terroir of La Lagune is considered by the famous geologist René Pijassou as «the Medoc island model»

Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml Coming in around 13% alcoholDark ruby (a far less saturated color than the 1990, for example), this wine offers up a somewhat internationally styled nose of new oak and ripe black currant fruit, with a hint of mineral and graphite. The wine is a medium weight, relatively elegant style of wine without nearly the power, density, and layers of concentration that the 1990 possesses. Like so many 1989s, there is a feeling that the selection was not as strict as it could have been, or