Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml although I am told contracts

although I am told contracts with other growers who purchase fruit will remain in place

Coming in around 13% alcohol

Vineyard notes: "The terroir of La Lagune is considered by the famous geologist René Pijassou as «the Medoc island model»

powerful finish

It has round and ripe blackberry and cassis fruit flavors

Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml although I am told contractsDark ruby (a far less saturated color than the 1990, for example), this wine offers up a somewhat internationally styled nose of new oak and ripe black currant fruit, with a hint of mineral and graphite. The wine is a medium weight, relatively elegant style of wine without nearly the power, density, and layers of concentration that the 1990 possesses. Like so many 1989s, there is a feeling that the selection was not as strict as it could have been, or