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6 Bottles 1988 Château Léoville-Las Cases, Saint-Julien

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:340.00 EUR Estimated At:560.00 - 700.00 EUR
6 Bottles 1988 Château Léoville-Las Cases, Saint-Julien
Six bottles of Château Léoville-Las Cases
1988 vintage
Saint-Julien, Bordeaux/France
Original filling quantity: 0.75 l
Fill level: Into Neck
Robert Parker (2003): 92/100

This lot comprises six bottles of 1988 vintage Château Léoville-Las Cases from the Saint-Julien appellation in Bordeaux.

Saint-Julien is an appellation in Médoc by the Gironde estuary, adjacent to Pauillac. The predominant grape variety here is Cabernet Sauvignon and the wines are powerful, complex and long-lived. The wines from the northern part of the appellation are comparable to those from Pauillac, while in the south the wines tend to be more elegant like those from Margaux. In the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 there are no premier cru wine estates in Saint-Julien, although the best grand crus of the region, including Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, would most likely be rated even higher today.

1988 was the first in a trilogy of truly great vintages. Although it is often overshadowed by the following years of 1989 and 1990, it is considered the most classic of the three.

The 1988 vintage Léoville-Las Cases was rated 92 points by Robert Parker in 2003.

The fill levels are excellent (into neck). The labels and capsules are in perfect condition.

Château Léoville-Las Cases

Château Léoville-Las Cases is a famous wine estate in the appellation of Saint-Julien in Bordeaux. Before the French Revolution it was, together with Châteaux Léoville-Barton and Léoville-Poyferré, one large estate named Château Léoville, the largest wine estate in Médoc at the time with over 180 hectares. After the revolution, the owner at the time, Marquis de Las Cases Beauvoir, had to part with a section of the wine estate. The Irish wine merchant Hugh Barton bought this section and made it into Château Léoville-Barton, which is still owned by his descendants today. In 1840 the vineyard was divided once again, this time within the Las Cases family, resulting in Château Léoville-Poyferré. Of these estates, the Léoville-Las Cases is the largest and most highly regarded. In the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 it was classified as Deuxième Grand Cru Classé while being in no way inferior to the Premier Crus. Today it is owned by the Delon family and is counselled by the oenologist Jacques Boissenot, who also assists four of the five Premier Crus as well as a number of other well-known wineries in Bordeaux.

Léoville-Las Cases has a vineyard area of around 97 hectares with 65 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 19 % Merlot 13 % and 3 % Petit Verdot. The average age of the vines is 30 years. Only 40 % of the anual production, which amounts to an average of about 450,000 bottles, becomes the first wine, the rest becomes the estate’s second wine, Clos du Marquis, which itself is often better than a number of other Grand Crus.
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