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  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    Roasted lamb

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A well-made sleeper of the vintage, Lafon Rochet's 2011 exhibits a dense ruby/plum color in addition to sweet cassis, earth and spice notes, medium body, excellent depth and light to moderate tannin. It should drink nicely for a decade or more.

Score: 87 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (212), April 2014
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The Story

The grapes follow the same grandmother’s recipe for the cultivation of old apple trees, of which apples have more taste, a genuine flavour and a very particular length that is not only due to the variety but at the age of this apple tree.
Coming from the oldest wines of the vineyard, they bear less fruit, but offer greater complexity. Lafon-Rochet is a wine that is both simple and complex, it expresses aromas of black fruit in most vintages. ...

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Vintage 2011

The 2011 vintage is not easy to handle.

Smith Haut Lafitte not only makes great white and red wine from Bordeaux in Pessac Léognan, they are also at the cutting edge of technology. They were one of the first Bordeaux wine producers to begin using optical sorting, which came in handy with the difficult 2011 Bordeaux harvest. Fabien Teitgen, long-time general manager, joined us for a long detailed conversation about what happened at Smith Hau...

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Colour a little bit evolved but extremly well balanced wine with silky tannins and harmonius mid palate. A very good surprise to enjoy now and for the next 10 years at minimum.

  • 95p

Tasted in September 2019. Meaty, spicy cherry and blackcurrant fruit, nice complexity and length, fine structure. 

  • 91p
Deep in color with coffee, smoke and black cherry scents. Ripe tannins and sweet, ripe black cherry and plums are found in the round finish. 88-90 Pts
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Saint-Estèphe, Bordeaux

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Les Pélerins du Château Lafon-Rochet

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