Château Léoville Poyferré Saint Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 1985

Rob Brobst III

Mouthwatering

Matté

Manager The Wine Cellars

Excellent colour, really looking quite youthful. Good concentration on the nose, dense, firm with classy, ripe black cherry and plum fruit with suave touch of oak. Also has notes of new leather, Chinese 5 spice and wet clay. Lighter in the mouth than the nose would suggest with less character shiny through, still has some primary red & black berry fruit though lacks real character. Slick but rather boring.

James Leahy

Perfect end to Premiere Napa Valley is a pre 1990-Bordeaux Dinner to re-calibrate from all the barrel samples.

Thijs Hendriks

Corked

Willem Wittebol

Still very alive. Elegent nose with forest floor and soms positive bell pepper. Ceder and graphite. A joy

Kate Joanna Norris Monroe

'85 side by side. Pepper, black tea and salted plum. Gorgeous acid. 10 years to go at least.

Emeline Vast

Still awesome wine from 1985 :-) So So good of tanin

Ed Brachocki

still had some fruit left. Opened it just because and glad we did

David Jones

Full points! Best wine I have had in a while. $175 through wine-searcher, and worth it! This is supposedly an off year for this wine, but other vintages are way more expensive, and this was still terrific!!!

Lawrence Bernstein

Tired and slightly acidic 82