2019 Leoville Poyferre
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Very deep inky purple colour. Brooding deep concentrated nose -fresh cigar, dense cassis fruit, violets, floral lift too. Very ripe cassis, blackberry jam, black plum. Tremendous power and energy on the palate. This is opulent fruit and wonderfully intense. A chiselled minerality and sapid tannins leaves the palate fresh and clean. Heady wine
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James Suckling
Neal Martin
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67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot. Inky crimson. Seductively dark and rich aroma, ripe but not sweet-smelling until it starts to open in the glass. This has great depth of pure dark fruit but also quite a muscular structure, and all in balance. A big wine but balanced and so fresh. (JH)
The 2019 Léoville Poyferré is cut from the same cloth as the Ducru Beaucaillou, though without delivering quite the same panache. There is richness here, but it is contained at the moment. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins. Velvety smooth in texture, there is real finesse that becomes more apparent towards the finish that displays exquisite balance and wonderful length. The kind of wine that begs the response: more please. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.
Tasted blind. Glowing, dark crimson. Glossy texture. Dramatic. Then very dry, cool and inky. But I think it will come right in the end. Just closed, dry and tannic in style for the moment. (JR)
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.