2021 Léoville Poyferré

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“It was a challenging growing season,” Sara Lecompte-Cuvelier told me. “We had to believe our team at Léoville Poyferré and believe that everything would finish well. But it was difficult. We decided to wait a few days in September for the harvest. We wondered whether the forecast was right or wrong but in fact, the Cabernet was already ripe. The weather forecast was wrong, and we picked under the sunshine. The quantity is small due to the frost which meant the grapes found it difficult to grow. It was the lowest yield since 1991 at 24hL/ha. We decided to reduce the volume of juice by bleeding the Merlot vats by 20%, which is better than chaptalising. There was too much juice in the Merlot compared to the skins. I feel we kept the DNA of Léoville Poyferré. We used 8% vin de presse [twice as much as Léoville Las-Cases.] We were very selective.”

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The 2021s at Leoville Poyferré are gorgeous. The wines are all in the 13% alcohol range as opposed to the 14-15% of vintages 2018-2020, and yet there is no lack of flavor or depth. “We took the risk and waited through what were supposed to be heavy rains at the end of September and early October,” proprietor Sara Lecompte-Cuvelier told me. “The rain never arrived, but the Merlots still required some bleeding to achieve balance. Yields were 24 hectoliters per hectare,” she added.

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