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Across the road from Léoville Poyferré at Léoville Las-Cases I met with general director Pierre Graffeuille. “There was just a little frost on the western side, close to Talbot, in two plots of Clos du Marquis,” he told me. “In June we had quite high hydric stress but it did not slow down the growth cycle. In summer it was strange because it was dry, but quite cool and so this tempered the hydric stress. We did some green harvesting in the summer to decrease the yield and de-leafed three times. You did not want to do it too early otherwise you risked burning the berries. When we saw that the summer was not going to be warm and hot, we decided to do two more rounds of de-leafing. The work in the vineyard was important and we had to do a little more sorting in the vineyard, which also explains the lower yield. Roughly 60% of the vineyard is now organic. The one major risk was to over-extract. We separate the press wine into many lots and so we are very precise in blending them. The wines here were blended in mid-December and put into barrels with the pressed wine.” It is becoming predictable but yes, of course, Las-Cases takes the gold medal in 2017. Since it virtually overlooks the estuary, the Grand Vin was protected by the frost and simply by reading Pierre’s comments you can understand how much work was expended in keeping the vineyard in tip-top shape. Compare this to say, Pontet-Canet that took a more laissez-faire approach in terms of traditional vineyard practices and yet still made a very fine 2017. Anyway, it is a great Las-Cases that like its stylistic cousin in Saint-Estèphe, Château Montrose, is a little more supple and approachable than other recent vintages.

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