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  • Country ranking ?

    580
  • Producer ranking ?

    24
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2040
  • Food Pairing

    Roasted Beets with Goat Cheese

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The Story

„Lafite hat eine Seele. Eine schöne, großzügige, freundliche Seele. Lafite verwandelt bloße Erde in einen Traum. Lafite ist Harmonie, die Harmonie zwischen Mensch und Natur. Ohne die Winzer auf Lafite gäbe es auch keinen Wein. Aber ohne den himmlischen Odem dieses einzigartigen Fleckens Erde könnten sie niemals etwas derart Herausragendes erschaffen.“

Baron Eric de Rothschild

Die Qualität des Château Lafite Rothschild bedarf keiner näher...

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Average Bottle Price

2020 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2005 1995
1 090€ +10.5% 986€ +10.2% 895€ +4.8% 854€ -7.3% 921€ -3.4% 953€ +7.1% 890€ -40.1% 1 485€ +2.3% 1 451€ +632.8% 198€ +102.0% 98€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Tasting note

ending

Lang and Geschmackvoll

flavors

Wollüstig, Kaffee, Teer, Pflaume and Zeder

nose

Intensiv and Komplex

recommend

Ja

taste

Harmonisch, Komplex, Kräftig, Harmonisch and Reich

Written Notes

Deep, dark violet colour. Pronounced nose with tremendous depth and complexity. Black currants, blackberries, cedar, black olives, dark chocolate, liquorice, and cigar with hints of violets. Very concentrated medium-bodied palate with great volume. Very firm super smooth tannins, vivid acidity and deliciously ripe elegant fruitiness of cassis and blackberries. Toasty and spicy oakiness with complex range of flavours supports discreetly the fruit. The wine seems to have an almost never-ending finish. Although the wine offers all this now, it will certainly offer double pleasure after a decade or two or even three. If you have only a bottle or two of this, it is worth waiting patiently.

  • 96p

The 1986 Lafite-Rothschild is a great wine although over several recent encounters it is never a convincing "perfect" wine. This mirrors the bottle I tasted at the property in 2016: blackberry and graphite on the nose, gawky at first, but coalescing with time. The palate is well balanced with firm tannins, strong graphite scents unfolding with time, superb energy if not delivering quite the finesse and precision that the very best Lafite-Rothschild will bestow. This is a wine that benefits from long decanting, say five or six hours, though it never quite reaches the ethereal heights that it could have done. Tasted at the International Business & Wine First Growth Dinner at the Four Seasons.

  • 96p

Ruby with garnet rim, A level fill. Closed, some coffee, very youthful, sweet tobacco, flirts the hell out of you, who can say only Burgundies seduce! Hints of cigars, blackcurrants, prunes underneath, pure, floral, great and playful acidity, tannins grips the tongue, playing with it, marvelous structure, fantastic length and such complexity, ever increasing, decanted for at least four hours, and even so needed a couple of hours to really settle in the glass. Will last another 20 years easily. 100

  • 100p
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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Satisfactory

Investment potential

Excellent

Fake factory

Serious

Glass time

2h
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