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Thu, Mar 6, 2025 03:00PM EST - Fri, Mar 7, 2025 03:00PM EST
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- 1986
- 750ml
- France
- Bordeaux
- Medoc
- Saint-Julien
- Bordeaux Red Blend
- Red
Lot 8
1986 Chateau Leoville Las Cases St Julien - 1 bottle(s)-750ml
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This lot is comprised of 1 bottle(s) of 1986 Chateau Leoville Las Cases St Julien - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $550 - $800 with a BUY IT NOW price of $675. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11587.
Please note the following bottle conditions in this lot - Base of Neck and Stained Label.
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A collection from Ontario consisting of wines from France with a focus on the Bordeaux region. The consignor was referred to Iron Gate by a long-time client and friend and has taken exceptional care of their bottles. Purchased through various outlets and stored in climate-controlled conditions.
The rating for 1986 Chateau Leoville Las Cases St Julienis 98 points from Robert Parker and the tasting note - The 1986 Leoville-Las Cases is still so youthful in appearance after 30 years, with only a thin bricking on the rim giving away its age. The bouquet is magnificent - extraordinarily pure and delineated, bewitching black fruit laced with cedar and graphite, the latter lending an almost Pauillac-like personality. The palate is exactly as I have found the previous dozen or so bottles I have tasted - structured, delineated, intense, aristocratic and imperious. It is less formidable than say, ten years ago, so it has probably just stepped onto its drinking plateau. The acidity is perfectly judged lending freshness and tension, crucial to counterbalance those layers of spicy black fruit that fans out with cedar and graphite (again) towards the finish. You come away with the feeling of having consumed a wine with immense energy, yet with so much more to give over the next three decades, and knowing this property, perhaps even the three decades after that! I would agree with the late Michel Delon - the 1986 Léoville Las-Cases is the summit of the 1980s.