Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml and vibrant acidity

and vibrant acidity

and a subtle touch of smoke

and a long finish that goes on for nearly 45 seconds

Sweet toffee

Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml and vibrant acidityDark 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