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  • Country ranking ?

    1 281
  • Producer ranking ?

    54
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Salads

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The Story

Each Château has its own style. What would be, according to you, the specificities of Château Smith Haut Lafitte White?

About our style, I would say that either you love our wines or you hate them. But be careful, if you do love them, it is for life… Our style is quite special, even paradoxical.
We have 90% of Sauvignon Blanc in our blend, however this proportion is almost unidentifiable on a blind tasting because of the age of our vines, ...

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Vintage 2014

Bordeaux Vintage 2014 - is not a great vintage like 2005, 2009 or 2010 but it will be able to secure a position as one of the very good vintages of Bordeaux.

Generally scheduled between the end of March and the beginning of April, Primeur Week in Bordeaux is always an exciting time because it allows a first glimpse of the latest vintage. The sheer number of wines available for tasting is impressive and a week almost seems short. This is why...

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Tasted blind. Pinkish. Big and broad. Rich and heavy and ambitious. Very dense and exciting. Really quite fine and thrilling. Tight and very youthful.

  • 91p

Pale colour. Intense pear, lemon aromas. Fresh and flinty wine with plenty of lemon fruit and long cutting acidity. Finishes chalky and tight. Touch cylindrical. 88 points

  • 88p

The wine has a beautiful bright pale yellow color and offers a vivid aromatic expression of citrus and yellow fruits revealing a great maturity: pomelo, yellow grapefruit, vine peach, fresh apricot, fresh mango; as well as more floral notes such as lime blossom and acacia. This complex bouquet shows delicate notes of sweet spices (star anise) and empyreumatic notes. 

The palate is tense, with a straightforward attack. Then the matter and the concentration appear and reveal an unctuous wine with gras structured by a pronounced acidity that gives the wine dynamism and great length. The finale is fantastic, saline, aromatic, fresh with an explosion of white fruits, flowers, spices and an elegant smokiness touch. 

Its minerality, salinity and delightful complexity give this wine the stature of the greatest white wines. 

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Origin

Martillac, Bordeaux

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