Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml Wine Spectator - 90 points

Wine Spectator - 90 points

Vineyard notes: "The terroir of La Lagune is considered by the famous geologist René Pijassou as «the Medoc island model»

It has round and ripe blackberry and cassis fruit flavors

this wine should evolve easily for 20 or more years

Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml Wine Spectator - 90 pointsDark 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