2010 Leoville Poyferre
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61CS 30M 6PV 3CF Tasted twice, once at the chateau and once at the Union des Grands Crus. Both samples were lacking freshness and were brutally tannic, showing a pruny, porty character. If these samples are representative of the finished wine then we would have serious doubts over the ability of the wine to age well. We are big fans of Leoville Poyferre and proprietor Didier Cuvelier so are prepared to reserve judgement until we have the opportunity to taste it again.
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Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
Ivor Davies
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I continue to absolutely love the 2010 Château Léoville Poyferré, and it certainly ticks all my boxes. This deep purple-hued beauty boasts phenomenal notes of crème de cassis, smoky tobacco, graphite, and leather. With full-bodied richness, a deep, layered mouthfeel, and ripe, polished tannins, it brings that rare mix of opulence and elegance and is an utter joy to drink. It needs a healthy decant if drinking any time soon and has another 3-4 decades of overall longevity. Drink 2025-2065.
Deep colour, luscious and powerful, has the push and pull of a truly great wine, where you are not exactly sure where you will land but you are fully along for the ride. Brilliant quality, precision, smoke, liquorice, cigar box, cassis, mint leaf etching, rippled with muscle, more Pauillac than St Julien in the 2010 vintage, with decades ahead of it. Great stuff, easily one of the wines of the tasting. 80% new oak. Harvest October 1 to 18.
About the producer
Ch. Léoville-Poyferré is a Second Growth Saint-Julien property that was once part of the same estate as Ch. Léoville Barton and Ch. Léoville Las Cases. It has the most complex and varied soils of the three and produces the most voluptuous, seductive style of wine.