Leoville Las Cases 1986 discounted with abundant tannins and some

with abundant tannins and some creamy flavors ending slightly warm

with sweet tannin

with hot peppers

it will benefit from another 1-2 years of bottle age

There is real substance here

Leoville Las Cases 1986 discounted with abundant tannins and someThe 1986 Leoville Las Cases is still so youthful in appearance after 30 years, with only a thin bricking on the rim giving away its age. The bouquet is magnificent: extraordinarily pure and delineated, bewitching black fruit laced with cedar and graphite, the latter lending an almost Pauillac like personality. The palate is exactly as I have found the previous dozen or so bottles I have tasted: structured, delineated, intense, aristocratic and