Saint Julien Red Bordeaux Blend

The 2018 Léoville-Poyferré performs similarly to the bottle tasted a few weeks earlier in the UK for my in-bottle round-up, although here I sense more opulence on the nose, perhaps more florality. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent ripe tannins, broad and sensual, plummy with that beguiling symmetry on the finish. It needs several years in bottle but it will be well worth the wait. Tasted at the Léoville-Poyferré vertical at the château with Sara Lecompte Cuvelier. (Neal Martin, Vinous, September 2022)

One of those that you could enjoy in its youth or wait 10yrs. Good fruit with smooth tannins that had the grip of a much older wine.

12/24 On the tanic side but once it opened it was stellar 88

2018

Great minerality, solid fruit. Drink now or im a few years.

Anticipating a wonderful dinner Pat’s grilled fillet mignon and St Julien Leoville Poyfette

Decanted for 3 hrs, mellowed out those tannins

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