Leoville Las Cases 1982 750mL Size:750mL 2001 Quilceda Creek - Wine

2001 Quilceda Creek - Wine Advocate # 154

"The 2014 Thorevilos offers up an exotic mélange of blue fruits

forest floor and fruitcake notes

gently sloping vineyard across from Freemark Abbey on Route 29

Its perfect balance suggests it can be drunk at a relatively young age

Leoville Las Cases 1982 750mL Size:750mL 2001 Quilceda Creek - Wine"As I wrote earlier this year, the 1982 Loville Las Cases is one of the least evolved wines of the vintage, and this impeccably conserved ex chteau bottle was, if anything, even more youthful still. Retaining a saturated ruby black hue at age 40, it unwinds in the glass with aromas of cassis and other dark fruits mingled with notions of pencil shavings and loamy soil. On the palate, it's full bodied, broad shouldered and muscular, with an ample core