Chateau Leoville Poyferre Saint-Julien 2. Cru Classe 2019 i trälåda

Jeb Dunnuck

The flagship 2019 Château Léoville Poyferré is based on 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, and the balance Petit Verdot. It's one of the bigger, richer wines in the vintage and has a gorgeous, thrilling, full-bodied style as well as notes of crème de cassis, tobacco leaf, violets, and chocolate. While many estates seem to be playing it safe and focusing on so-called elegance and balance, I love that Poyferré continues to make a ripe, sexy, beautifully textured wine that always offers more opulence and sexiness than most in the vintage. Ranking with the crème de la crème of the vintage, this gorgeous Poyferré can be enjoyed any time over the coming 40-50 years. Bravo!

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Antonio Galloni

The 2019 Léoville-Poyferré is creamy, racy and voluptuous to the core. Bright red cherry/plum fruit, blood orange, mint, spice and menthol fill out the layers with effortless grace. In some tastings, the 2019 has come across as quite powerful, while in other moments it shows greater finesse. Either way, the 2019 is positively stunning. I very much admire its energy and persistence. Tasted three times.

Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

One of the top vintages of Leoville Poyferre , the wine sports a beautiful dark color in the glass. The showy nose opens with black and red fruits, espresso, cocoa, tobacco leaf, smoke and floral aromas. On the palate is there the wine shines with its multiple layers of sensuously textured, deep, ripe, dark red fruits, plush, polished tannins and its multi-layered, lusciously-textured, long, vibrant finish. This will age and evolve for decades with little trouble.

Alexandre Ma

As a Saint-Julien known for its richness and ripeness, Léoville Poyferré 2019 blooms like a burning fire in this vintage. Not overly flashy, the aromas are magnificently gorgeous. The seductively charming flavor of blueberries and mulberries coated with a layer of dark chocolate powder. The body is powerful but elegant, delivering a tenderly juicy taste, creamy tannins, even a strand of orchid lingering on the palate. It is totally unbelievable that such a gigantic body maintains exceeding flexibility and lightness, as if an elephant soaring in the sky.

Robert Parker

The 2019 Léoville Poyferré is showing very well in bottle, wafting from the glass with aromas of crème de cassis and wild berries mingled with notions of licorice, loamy soil, cigar wrapper and smoke. Full-bodied, velvety and polished, it's broad and enveloping, with an ample core of fruit, ripe tannins and succulent acids, concluding with a long, precise finish. Invariably the most sumptuous of the three Léovilles, featuring some 35% Merlot, the 2019 is a terrific effort that will offer a wide drinking window.

Owen Bargreen

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux