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Chateau Leoville Poyferre2010

RED WINE

PUBLIC
May 2025
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Chateau Leoville Poyferre label
  • Producer Chateau Leoville Poyferre
  • Blend 3% Cabernet Franc
    61% Cabernet Sauvignon
    30% Merlot
    6% Petit Verdot
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Saint-Julien
  • UPC 0 15643 48935 8

Reviews

Jeb Dunnuck 100

Pure gold, the 2010 Chateau Leoville Poyferre, which was drunk beside a perfect 2009 Latour, offers everything you could want from wine. Sporting a deep purple hue as well as an incredible array of creme de cassis, graphite, damp earth, leafy tobacco, and beautifully integrated oak, it hits the palate with an incredible amount of fruit and opulence while always staying pure, precise, and as seamless as they come. It shows the density and power of the 2010 vintage, but it's remarkable in its balance, purity, and length. As with most 2010s today, it's still youthful and certainly in its early drinking plateau and has another 40-50 years of prime drinking.

by JD, Jeb Dunnuck , 2022

James Suckling 97

Opulent aromas of blackberry, black cherry and orange peel follow through to a full body with round, creamy tannins and a flavorful finish. A big, significant wine that is starting to open and come around. A long life ahead of it. Drink or hold.

by JS, James Suckling , 2021

Vinous Media 97

The 2010 Leoville-Poyferre takes the 2009 and ups the ante with brilliantly defined, intense black fruit. Perhaps it is just a little more "serious" compared to the previous vintage, but is finely chiseled and displaying more mineralite. The palate has mellowed since I last tasted it, developing more rondeur and a more caressing texture. Extremely pure in style, this fans out wonderful, fills the mouth and lingers for a minute. One of the highlights of Didier Cuvelier's career, this has a long future ahead. "LP" just does not get better than this.

by NM, Vinous Media , 2022

Wine Enthusiast 98

A wine of architectural strength and classical proportions, this has straight lines that mark the packed, concentrated fruits, which are sustained by its tannins. This is certainly the best wine that Léoville-Poyferré has produced, sumptuous while so finely structured.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2013

Wine Spectator 93

Features a coating of warm cocoa, with notes of solid currant paste, steeped fig and blackberry fruit. The pastis- and graphite-filled finish pumps along, revealing a well-embedded structure that should soften in the cellar. Best from 2015 through 2030.

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2013

Wine Advocate 94

Deep garnet in color, the 2010 Leoville Poyferre opens with notes of sauteed herbs and pencil shavings on the nose, giving way to scents of redcurrant jelly, baked plums and cedar chest plus a waft of cassis. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has pleasant energy and well-played, lightly chewy tannins with compelling freshness on the finish.

by LPB, Wine Advocate , 2020

Technical Details

Harvest

After precise plot-by-plot ripeness tests (sampling of 200 grapes per plot to analyse the potential alcoholic degree, acidity, pH, polyphenols, anthocya­ nin; berry tasting), it is atlast time to begin picking,on 1st October.
The Merlots are ready to be harvested. The grapes are incredibly small and of remarkable quality. Benefiting from the greater sun exposure, these smaller berries are also more concentrated In fruity aromas.
The Cabernets and Petit-Verdots need more time: we stop picking for a few days to allow the tannins in their pips to ripen fully.
The first grapes are picked on pt October and the last on 18th October 2010, 6 days later than in 2009. The same difference was observed regarding the dates of budbreak.

Vintage

A cold and wet winter,a hot and dry spring, then a hot, dry and sunny summer followed by beneficial rainfall in September.
These extreme weather conditions do not affect our healthy,resistant vines, solidly rooted in their well-balanced soil.
The excellent natural drainage and deep rooting of our vineyard ensure regularity in the growth cycle. For this 2010 harvest we are delighted to inaugurate our new truncated vats. Their varying capacities allow a plot-by-plot selection and their thermo-regulated double walls enable a prefermentary cold maceration without the use of dry ice
The inevitable comparison is made: after an exceptional vintage in 2009 with a similar climatic profile, can 2010 be even better?