2009 Clos du Marquis, St-Julien

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James Suckling

Reviewed March 2019

Rich yet firmly structured this is a very classic St.-Julien that's generous and polished with so much energy driving the long plush finish. Delicious now, but should hold for many years.

Professional Reviews

Jeb Dunnuck

Review Date: 11/2020

A beautiful, young, and still burly 2009, the Clos du Marquis comes from a single vineyard in the Léoville Las Cases stable (it's not a second wine) and is 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and the balance Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. It's a beautiful wine offering classic St.-Julien crème de cassis fruits as well as lots of rocky minerality, cedarwood, graphite, and spring flowers.

Wine Enthusiast

Review Date: 04/2012

A dense wine, the wood just showing at this stage through its dark tannins and superb rich fruit. The wine is ripe, with a density of tannins that go right down deep. Big and powerful. (RV)

Jane Anson

Review Date: 12/2022

Slate, pencl lead and crayon is dominant at this stage, with tannins that are arrow straight, serious without losing St Julien balance and finesse. Chiselled black fruits that soften to spiced plum through the palate. Enjoyable. 40% new oak.

Staff Reviews

Ralph Sands

Deep blood red, with thick mid-palate fruit. It will be one of the great values of the vintage!

Gary Westby

The 2009 Clos Du Marquis has the power and authority of a great vintage of Léoville Las Cases and blew me away in last Saturdays tasting. The only thing this wine is missing is maturity- and it everything is in place for this to develop perfectly for many, many years. With a fabulous, cool Cabernet Sauvignon nose and the purest Bordeaux palate impression I can recall in any 2009, this is one of the greats of the vintage. Get some and bury it at the bottom of a stack in your cellar!

Notes

93 points Robert Parker in Wine Advocate: "Now positioned as a totally separate vineyard and a real clos (enclosed walled vineyard), this blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot from Jean-Hubert Delon is a beauty. Crème de cassis notes intermixed with some vanillin, crushed rock and spring flowers jump from the glass. Full-bodied and powerful (nearly 14% natural alcohol), this is a generously endowed, rich wine that was first made in 1902. Readers need to think of it as a true classified growth, although technically it is not." (12/2011)

Details

Origin	Saint Julien, Bordeaux, France
Type/Varietal	Cabernet Sauvignon and Blends
Alcohol Content	13.75%
SKU	1114484