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    1 346
  • Producer ranking ?

    71
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Beef

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The Story

The Château Lafite estate run by the Rothschilds is, with its 100 hectares of cultivated land, the largest of the main Pauillac vineyards.

It is located in the highest part of the area and the view from its château, with its conical towers that appear on the label, takes in the banks of the River Gironde, which flows nearby. The wines are a blend of four different varieties of grape – Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petite Verdot and Cabernet F...

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Tasting note

color

Medium

ending

Medium and Round

recommend

Yes

taste

Well-Integrated

Written Notes

Fair to expect great things of this – and served on the same day as the 70 La Tache, which conventional wisdom would suggest it would leave in its wake. Certainly an interesting and quite pleasant wine but hardly a superstar. Fully mature and indeed, on a gentle fade. A gentle decline might be a better description, but still plenty of time before it is gone. But certainly best drunk sooner rather than later. A mature, fading, mid-weight Bordeaux that still has much of interest. Drink up. 89
  • 89p
Very top shoulder fill, ruby, broad brick rim. Fantastic nose, towards rich, figs, prunes, tobacco, leather, very layered and nuanced. Stunning elegance on the palate, elegant acidity, not too high, tannins now gone (unlike the 70 Latour), superb, quite rich palate as well, cedar, perfumed, again tobacco. Long. Must be an absolute optimal bottle.
  • 96p
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Pauillac, Bordeaux
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