November 26, 2025
Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019 - a top vintage
2019 Leoville Las Cases
98 Points - Wine Advocate
“The 2019 Léoville Las Cases is a brilliant young wine that will delight Bordeaux purists. […] Concentrated and serious, much like its immediate neighbor Château Latour, it is likely to emerge as one of the vintage’s longest lived—and greatest—wines.”
Chateau Leoville Las Cases is one of the most prestigious estates in Saint-Julien, often considered a "Super Second" due to its consistent First Growth-like quality. With origins dating back to the 17th century, the estate boasts one of Bordeaux’s finest terroirs, situated on deep gravel soils near the Gironde Estuary. Under the stewardship of Jean-Hubert Delon, Leoville Las Cases has maintained its reputation for producing structured, age-worthy wines with incredible depth, power, and finesse.
What truly sets Leoville Las Cases apart is the extraordinary terroir of its walled Grand Clos, a parcel often compared to the finest sites in Pauillac. Here, deep Gunzian gravel overlies clay and limestone, giving Cabernet Sauvignon perfect drainage, slow ripening and remarkable concentration. Proximity to the Gironde moderates temperatures, protecting the vines from frost and helping achieve optimal maturity. The result is a wine of profound structure, precision and mineral drive, capable of ageing for decades.
Table: Price comparison of top-scoring vintages of Leoville Las Cases. Accurate as of blog posting.
The 2019 Leoville Las Cases is a towering expression of Saint Julien, uniting immense structure with remarkable finesse. Built around 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, it delivers layers of cassis, black cherry, graphite, slate and violets, wrapped in ultra-fine, weightless tannins. Critics praise its precision, mineral depth and soaring tension, noting its kinship with neighbouring Latour. This is a profound, long-lived wine that will unfold beautifully over the coming decades.
We have a small parcel available at €169* In Bond per bottle. With outstanding scores, glowing commentary from every major critic and a price that still sits well below other top vintages, this is a clear opportunity.
If you don’t already have it in your cellar, now is the moment to make sure it’s there.
Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2019
€169* In Bond per bottle
100 Points | Falstaff, Peter Moser
Dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, subtle brightening on rim. Fine oak, a hint of nougat, dark berries underneath, some cardamom, dark cherries, a hint of candied oranges. Powerful, taut, tightly meshed, fresh acidity, spicy, supporting tannins, a hint of chocolate on the finish, convincing balance, mineral and very long lasting, cherries on the finish, a vin de garde, can also be tasted young with a few hours in the carafe, enormous future potential.
99+ Points | The Wine Independent, Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Made from 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot, and 10% Cabernet Franc, the 2019 Leoville Las Cases is deep garnet-purple in color. It bursts from the glass with seductive scents of black cherry compote, creme de cassis, violets, and dark chocolate, leading to wafts of cedar and star anise. The full-bodied palate has amazingly fine tannins and great tension supporting the mineral-accented black fruits, finishing very long.
98 Points | Wine Advocate, William Kelley
The 2019 Léoville Las Cases is a brilliant young wine that will delight Bordeaux purists. Unwinding in the glass with scents of cassis, dark berries, cigar wrapper and pencil shavings, it’s full-bodied, layered and tightly wound, with a deep core of fruit, lively acids and an abundance of rich, powdery tannins. Concentrated and serious, much like its immediate neighbor Château Latour, it is likely to emerge as one of the vintage’s longest lived—and greatest—wines.
98 Ponts | Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux
This is just a great Las Cases where the structure expands upwards and outwards, making your tastebuds sit up and pay attention. The scraping minerality almost feels like you are on limestone instead of gravel soils, until the tannins kick in and you hit a wall of slate, spice, liquorice, rosebud, violet. Dark autumnal fruits of blackcurrant and bilberry are set against smoke and flint, giving no ground, demanding you slow down and take your time. It opens up, but you need to work for it. Exudes authority, a wine that delivers the essence of the property. Harvest September 18 to October 8. 3.67pH, 90% new oak.
98 Points | Decanter, Georgina Hindle
Wet stone, smoke and floral aspects to the aromatic profile - seriously inviting. Density and power here, but cooling and all in balance, full of blackcurrant and black cherries with obvious minerality. It gives such plushness in terms of roundness and grip of tannins, but also layers of perfumed fruit, ripe fruit and cooling slate and liquorice elements. A distinguished wine with a seamless tannic structure and excellent length. Lots of life here and also a real, almost sweet acidity that gives life and lift. Lots going on now but designed for long and steady ageing.
*Prices are accurate as of the blog publication date and may be subject to change.