For many the incarnation of great red Bordeaux and fine wine in general. Widely recognized as Premier Cru long before the offcial classification of 1855 (then known as Lafite or Lafitte – Baron James de Rothschild overtook the estate in 1868).
107 hectares are these days under vines in Pauillac (still 70 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, now 25 percent Merlot, 3 percent Cabernet Franc and 2 percent Petit Verdot), with an average plant age of 35 years (the vines used for the Grand Vin de Chateau Lafite-Rothschild average 45 years). Indeed, this luxury wine-growing estate is as well one of the largest wineries in Bordeaux and the world, producing annually more than 30,000 cases (in average 200,000 bottles of the Grand Vin).
While admired for its incomparable finesse and elegancy, a Lafite is not just an absolutely aesthetic wine, but of great structure, unique depth, especially in the last decades a big wine of great concentration and in good vintages the red Bordeaux wine in perfection. Many tastings of ancient vintages show its enormous longevity, which should be appreciated through adequate cellaring.
Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 2007, a case of 6 magnum bottles, below the Lafite vintage 2004, case of 6 bottles:
Carruades de Lafite is a pleateau South of chateau Lafite and the name of the second wine (from 1974 until the 1980s sold as “Moulin de Carruades”), although in character a clear relative of the Grand Vin it consists of more Merlot (up to 50 percent), which makes this wine more approachable in its youth.
Chateau Lafite-Rothschild
For many the incarnation of great red Bordeaux and fine wine in general. Widely recognized as Premier Cru long before the offcial classification of 1855 (then known as Lafite or Lafitte – Baron James de Rothschild overtook the estate in 1868).
107 hectares are these days under vines in Pauillac (still 70 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, now 25 percent Merlot, 3 percent Cabernet Franc and 2 percent Petit Verdot), with an average plant age of 35 years (the vines used for the Grand Vin de Chateau Lafite-Rothschild average 45 years). Indeed, this luxury wine-growing estate is as well one of the largest wineries in Bordeaux and the world, producing annually more than 30,000 cases (in average 200,000 bottles of the Grand Vin).
While admired for its incomparable finesse and elegancy, a Lafite is not just an absolutely aesthetic wine, but of great structure, unique depth, especially in the last decades a big wine of great concentration and in good vintages the red Bordeaux wine in perfection. Many tastings of ancient vintages show its enormous longevity, which should be appreciated through adequate cellaring.
Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 2007, a case of 6 magnum bottles, below the Lafite vintage 2004, case of 6 bottles:
Carruades de Lafite is a pleateau South of chateau Lafite and the name of the second wine (from 1974 until the 1980s sold as “Moulin de Carruades”), although in character a clear relative of the Grand Vin it consists of more Merlot (up to 50 percent), which makes this wine more approachable in its youth.