Le Petit Lion du Marquis de Leoville Las Cases2019

RED WINE

Jeb Dunnuck 93

The second wine of the chateau, the 2019 Le Petit Lion is based on 46% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc that saw 30% new French oak. Beautiful cassis and black cherry fruits as well as cedar pencil, tobacco, and damp earth all emerge on the nose, and it's medium to full-bodied, has a balanced, seamless texture, wonderful depth of fruit, and a great finish. It's one heck of a second wine that will have two decades of prime drinking.

by JD, Jeb Dunnuck , 2022

James Suckling 95

Blackberry, blackcurrant and wet-earth character with spice and sweet tobacco. Bark and cloves, too. It's medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins and a long finish. Excellent second wine from Las Cases.

by JS, James Suckling , 2022

Wine Advocate 90

The 2019 Le Petit Lion is excellent, offering up nots of dark berries, plums, pencil shavings and loamy soil, followed by a medium to full-bodied, deep and lively palate that's nicely concentrated, concluding with a long, saline finish. It's produced from vines within the clos of Leoville-Las Cases itself—mainly young-vine Cabernet Sauvignon and old-vine, less optimally exposed Merlot in a block that borders Latour.

by WK, Wine Advocate , 2022

Wine Enthusiast 93

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2020

Wine Spectator 90

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2022