Château Léoville Las Cases 2010

Layered, textured, deep, cigar box, cassis and earth, managing to simultaneously stretch out, and burrow down. The edges open slowly but surely and seductively. Still inky in colour, this has all the powerful texture and tannic architecture that you expect from Leoville, and unlike the 2009 at its ten year point it is still keeping plenty of secrets close to its chest. But you are going to want to be around when it fully opens. Drinking window: 2022-2050. Part of Best red wine: Decanter’s 100 point scores. Score – 100. (Jane Anson, decanter.com, March 15, 2021)