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CHÂTEAU LAFITE

2014 1er Cru Classé Pauillac Château Lafite Rothschild

Grapes Petit Verdot, Merlot, Cab Sauv
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Pauillac
Classification 1er Cru Classé
ABV 12.5%

So demure, so sleek, but this has real presence. Savoury notes mingle with a dried flower scent on the nose. This is elegant but so brooding. The dark fruit is firmly wound up in a tight, dense middle, but the odd whiff of riper red fruit berries is evidence of the lovely ripeness here. This finishes super clean, beautifully mineral, long, linear and driven, and just a dry feel of super-fine tannin. Such class, long and polished. Rating: 96 L&S (Apr 2015)


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The 2014 Lafite-Rothschild has a typically refined nose at first, though I notice that it gains more richness after five minutes and replicates the menthol scents that I noticed in the previous bottle four years ago. The palate is medium-bodied with rounded tannins, fleshy and ripe. White pepper and fennel infuse the red fruit. Perhaps it doesn't quite "kick on" towards the finish like Mouton, though it does feel reassuringly persistent. Maybe it has something up its sleeve? A second bottle tasted blind at Southwold was a bit "aloof". Tasted at Bordeaux Index's 10-Year-On tasting. Drinking range: 2026 - 2055 Rating: 92 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Mar 2024)

Fine swirls of gunsmoke on the first nose, totally enticing, very much in control, with mouthwatering salinity, fine tannic structure that initially masks the build up of power and concentration, with an expansion through the mid palate of raspberry, cassis, rose petals and tobacco leaf. One of those sapid, mouthwatering, moreish Lafites that beg to be drunk, but are deceptive because will continue to develop over the next decade, then hold on for another two or three. It's delicious, not the most luscious 2014, but elegant and on point. Drinking range: 2024 - 2045 Rating: 97 Jane Anson, Decanter (Feb 2024)

The 2014 Lafite-Rothschild has an incredibly fruit-driven bouquet with layers of black cherries, cassis, raspberry preserve and menthol aromas all beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with a sweet core of intense red berry fruit laced with white pepper, sage and a hint of fennel. The balance here is exquisite and the manner in which it fans out on the final third is just glorious. You could actually broach this now, it is so drinkable, but it has the substance to suggest long-term ageing. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting. Drinking range: 2024 - 2055 Rating: 95 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Mar 2018)

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