Leoville Las Cases - 2006 (750ml) Chardonnay allowing the marmalade

allowing the marmalade

This is an outstanding showing in a very challenging vintage

blackberry

this beauty can be drunk now or cellared for 20 years or more

Leoville Las Cases - 2006 (750ml) Chardonnay allowing the marmaladeNot surprisingly, Leoville Las Cases has produced another classic, potentially long lived wine in 2006. Among the St. Juliens, it, Ducru Beaucaillou, and Leoville Barton possess the potential for the greatest longevity. Interestingly, when I visited this chateau in January, proprietor Jean Hubert Delon offered me two samples, one where the cork had been pulled immediately prior to tasting, and another that had been decanted four hours earlier. Both