2007 Leoville Poyferre
By Chateau Leoville Poyferre
2007 Leoville Poyferre from Chateau Leoville Poyferre, St-Julien, Bordeaux
With deep admiration for the 2007 vintage, I turn my focus to the 2007 Leoville Poyferre from Chateau Leoville Poyferre, a wine that exhibits the estate's resilience and deft handling of a challenging year. In the fickle Bordelais climate of 2007, vignerons were tested by an early bud break followed by climatic seesaws that demanded vigilance and precision.
The Alchemy of the 2007 Vintage
Yet, against these odds, Chateau Leoville Poyferre sculpted an assemblage of commendable sophistication. The Cabernet Sauvignon - paramount in this blend - thrived sufficiently under the vigilant eyes of the winemakers, providing a framework of firm tannins and a bouquet steeped in blackcurrant and tobacco leaf nuances. With a generous proportion of Merlot delivering opulent plum notes and a luxurious roundness, this wine encapsulates not just the terroir of St-Julien but an adept response to the vintage's trials.
A Vintage Speaks
The hallmark of 2007 in Bordeaux is not brash intensity, but rather an understated elegance; an asset in fine wine investment. The 2007 Leoville Poyferre mirrors this sentiment with its harmonious dance between subtlety and depth, delivering delicate layers of earthy spice amongst ripe fruit notes which are maturing gracefully as the years progress.
Cedar and subtle oak ageing have imparted savoury threads to this vintage, creating an experience on the palate that is as interesting as it is satisfying – a testament to its evolving complexity. This gives the 2007 Leoville Poyferre from Chateau Leoville Poyferre a discreet charm that balances immediate pleasure with rewarding longevity.
In closing, amidst fluctuating markets and vintages, this offering stands out as one possessing character shaped by its year. The 2007 Leoville Poyferre has matured into a wine with both intrinsic beauty and investment allure, embodying one of those select opportunities where time has nurtured distinctiveness worthy of both contemplation and portfolio inclusion.
Market price (GBP)
£590.00
12x75cl
Highest score
91
POP score
53.64
Scores and tasting notes
Tasted at BI Wine & Spirits' 10-Years-On tasting, the 2007 Leoville-Poyferre has a tightly wound bouquet at first, although it unfurls to reveal attractive cedar and undergrowth-tinged black fruit, dried blood and cured meat aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with a grainy texture, a fine thread of acidity and a grippy, almost Pauillac-like, graphite finish that lends body and focus. This showing at ten years suggests that, after differing performances in its youth, this Saint Julien has settled into a groove; in fact, I envisage it maturing with style over the next 15-20 years. Tasted February 2017.
Neal Martin - The Wine Advocate, 30 June 2017
Tasted blind at the 2007 Bordeaux horizontal in Southwold. The nose is lacking a little vigour and definition: rather muffled black fruit, minerals, dark cherries but it opens up and coalesces in the glass. Modern in style, quite opulent for the vintage…typical of Didier’s style. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe dusty tannins, quite spicy on the entry, nice weight and cohesion, a little dry towards the finish but decent length. Very fine. Tasted January 2011.
Neal Martin - Wine Journal Nov 2011
Grapy, richly fruity, medium-bodied flavors of cocoa, white chocolate, spicy herbs, and black currants jump from the glass of this deliciously evolved, complex wine. It is a soft, easy-going St.-Julien to consume over the next 8-10 years.
Robert Parker Jr - Wine Advocate #188 April 2010