2004 Château Smith Haut Lafitte

Community Tasting Notes (222) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  2/3/2024 - Geoff Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Needs air to really show itself. Even so, with a 2 hour decant, a tremendous multifaceted nose, dark fruit some road tar, full bodied, sweet smooth tannins and long finish. Continued to evolve in the glass with wonderful aromatic secondary notes. Very enjoyable wine.

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  1/31/2024 - drfloyd Likes this wine:

  Drinking really well here - just lovely - beautiful nose, its all come together - in a perfect spot but has plenty of life ahead. This wine really needed age to impress - and it does..

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  12/31/2023 - Argrath wrote: 93 Points

  Medium-fullish, very spicy nose. Ripe black fruit, plum, black currant, herbal cutg and tertiary tobacco. Very nice, but a bit shy.
  Medium-fullish, fullish palate. Soft and round. Melted, ripe tannins. Oak and cedar more prominent than on the nose. Good complexity. Liquorice finish that is just a bit short for higher score.
  Ready, drink now and during next 10 years.

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  12/25/2023 - Vinophil2000 wrote: flawed

  Zwei Flaschen bei ebay von Technics85 erworben. Vermutlich zu warm gelagert. Der Wein wirkte, als sei die Trinkphase bereits seit mindestens vier Jahren vorbei, bzw. der Höhepunkt vor 12-15 Jahren gewesen. Kein wirklicher Spaß mehr. Undifferenziert. 15 und 35 etwa pro Flasche bezahlt. Pfui. 85 Punkte?

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  12/15/2023 - Somm Troy S Likes this wine: 93 Points

  My second time drinking and loving this as an old geezer. So much life in it still, precisely we by old Bordeaux or why we at least wait for them to become aged lol. Just a sensational drinking experience - olive, stone, blueberry, herbs, pencil, clove. Structure intact and ready to go a few more years too.

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