Château Léoville-Las Cases Grand Vin de Leoville du Marquis de las Cases Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 1996 (1500ml)

David Langstaff

A bit light. Beautiful nose. Darker fruits.

Alex Lallos

Owner No Limit Fine Wines, Private Wine Consultant

Spot on and still young. Dark red color no bricking. Showing some secondary notes of charred wood and leather with light tobacco. Still tannic and could’ve used a decant. Great wine

Conrad Green

Wonderfully balanced with lean blue fruit, graphite, pepper and a very clam and composed finish. Classy, and open for business.

Bill Bender

Wet cedar, blueberry compote, tobacco and spice. Classy.

Madison Murphy

Co-owner Presqu'ile Winery

1996 is smoking

Richard Young

Wine Specialist Christie's

Classic Claret

Tom Wark

Blogger/Educator fermentationwineblog.com, Founder American Wine Consumers Coalition

Stunning! Another 20 + years on this baby

Greg Borden

Sommelier/Wine Director Mas Farmhouse & Mas Grillade

One word to some up this wine: Derp.

Andrew Cullimore

Bit more lightening on the rim , more garnet . Touch more herbal on the nose with cedar , and grafite, much more lean and mineral on the palate. This takes quite a while to find its feet and benefits from quite a lot of air . In some ways a little unfortunate to be served between the 2000 and 1990 , which are a fuller , and more showy in style . However after a while this does show quite good length and balance , refreshing acidity . This is quite lean and mineral , focused and still pretty young . From now over the next 10 years. A little austere in style , reminds me a little of the 2005 in that aspect , though without that vintage’s intensity or density .

Christine T

You could smell the beauty of it the second you open the bottle. Takes a minute to open up, naturally but had pretty good staying power. Great structure and balance.