In recent years, several plots of vines in Clos Léoville Las Cases have been uprooted and replanted and are now entering production. Also, in order to preserve the quality level of the Grand Vin, Château Léoville Las Cases decided, with the 2007 vintage , to create a second wine, the Petit Lion du Marquis de Las Cases.
It is part of the philosophy of its two elders, it is vinified and aged to retain throughout its development the flavor of fresh and ripe fruit. It is however connoted second wine, easier to access and to consume earlier, with a significant presence of Merlot varietal wines.