Description

Red Wine: 2019 | L’If | Saint-Emilion (Magnum)

Blackberry and cherry aromas with some walnuts. Crushed stone, dried seaweed and forest fruit, too. Its medium-bodied with firm, fine and chewy tannin and a salty finish.

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Producer: L’If

Ratings: JL | 97 JD | 97

Vintage: 2019

Size: 1.5L

ABV: 14.5%

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red

Country/Region: France, Saint-Emilion

Blackberry and cherry aromas with some walnuts. Crushed stone, dried seaweed and forest fruit, too. Its medium-bodied with firm, fine and chewy tannin and a salty finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Deeply colored, the wine jumps with a strong sense of florality before moving on to its licorice, wet earth, spice, black cherry, and chocolate coated plums. Rich, full-bodied, deep, long and intense, the wine hits all the right notes and keeps on hitting them long after the wine has left your glass. The layers of sweet, opulently-textured, dark fruits, linger and expand, leaving you with an intense, sensual wave of fruit on the backend.

• Jeb Dunnuck: The 2019 Chteau L’If is brilliant stuff that has everything you could want from a great wine richness, opulence, elegance, and complexity. Based largely on Merlot, it reveals a dense purple hue as well a great bouquet of ripe black cherries, redcurrants, smoky tobacco, and chalky minerality. Full-bodied, pure, elegant, and wonderfully concentrated, it has enough tannins to warrant 4-5 years in the cellar and will be a 25+-year wine.

Producer Information

L’If is a Bordeaux Right Bank wine estate in the Saint-milion appellation, known for its red wine blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and for its association with Le Pin. The property was purchased by Jacques Thienpont in 2010. Previously, it had been known as Chteau La Bouygue. The name was changed to echo that of the new owner’s famous Pomerol estate. Le Pin is named after a pine tree on the property, while L’If is the French word for a yew tree, which now features prominently on the label. However, presumably to help with pronunciation, the 2010 was labelled Leaf (omitting the yew image) for the US market.