1982 Clos du Marquis

Although I enjoyed this wine more three or four years ago, it remains a vibrant, exuberant, spicy, cedary, curranty claret with medium body, good depth, and real class. The second wine of Leoville-Las-Cases, it often performs at a classified growth level. Owners should plan to drink it by the turn of the century . Tasted 6 times since bottling with consistent notes.

Good red-ruby. Cassis, baked herbs and a floral perfume on the nose. Rather hard in the mouth and dominated by its structure. Distinctly green-edged wine that could use more flesh. Today, Leoville-Las Cases least-ripe fruit would go into the estate third wine or be sold off entirely.