| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/24/2007 - Fatty Cat wrote: 91 pointsXmas eve 2007: rubin color; restrained bouquet of red fruits, noble wood and cigar box; noble austerity on the palate; light/medium body. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/21/2007 - radwino wrote: 94 pointsMocha bomb. Don't decant. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/20/2007 - tanglenet wrote: flawedCorked. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/15/2007 - Finare Vinare wrote: 94 pointsA whiff of horse stable out of the decanter. Initially a bit shy on the nose: pencil shavings, grass and barnyard. Iron, earth and minerals. Herbs like sage and rosemary. Sweet tobacco, sweet liquorice, dark chocolate. After half an hour it's wide open with the finest of old jammy notes - strawberries, raspberries and cherries. All in all, brilliant! We taste: yes, this is good! We get an impressive concentration and intensity, slender mouthfeel, good acids and a really long aftertaste. The tannins are silky smooth, the fruit still youthful and supported by liquorice. Not even the slightest hole in the middle. A suberb taste that reverberates for minutes! |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/3/2007 - jeffal66 wrote: 91 pointsDrink at a Philly BYO with my family. An excellent bottle though it could have benefitted from more time in the air. There's still punch left in this beauty but it's drinking well, with a classic old world palate, terrific balance and a wonderful perfumed finish. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/12/2007 - dbkitc wrote: 92 pointsBeautiful Brodeaux with a modern flair - very similar to the last bottle from a few weeks ago. Drinking beautifully today. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
9/25/2007 - dbkitc wrote: 92 pointsFairly deep garnet with a hint of purple. More youthful than I would have imagined. Gorgeous big graves nose of smoke, vanilla, tobacco and red plum fruit. Just the slightest bit soapy, though everything weaves together nicely. Smooth and silky on the palate. More classic and elegant than the more modern nose suggests. This is really firing tonight with character, depth and intensity. It also finishes well. I see no reason to hold it more than another year or two as, while it will last a while, I cannot see it getting any better. (92) |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/21/2007 - Employee500 wrote: 91 pointsBig, salty, a bit oaky, but very good. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/11/2007 - KevinS wrote: 91 pointsDisappointing right out of the bottle. Lovely nose of flowers and tobacco. Initially the palate was light and flavorful (predominantly tobacco), but kind of thin and lacking persistence. As the wine opened in the decanter over dinner, it really put on weight and had improved greatly after 90 minutes. Palate now showed red fruits and interesting minerality, which was complemented (as opposed to dominated) by the tobacco. 87 right out of the bottle, but had improved nicely to the above score by the time we finished. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/23/2007 - ROrmand wrote: 90 pointsBig wine with an interesting funk component. Contemplation is rewarded. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/15/2007 - Wineosseur wrote: 92 pointsConsumed over 3 nights, and continued to improve each day. Nose opens to reveal smoke, earth, minerals, and dark fruits. Palate is still rather tannic with somewhat muted fruit emerging more with air time. Solid now with upside. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/15/2007 - JScott wrote: 92 pointsJust a very solid effort for this producer that's very enjoyable now and pretty much has been from release. Sems to have adequate structure for another 10-15 years, and while it may evolve, I'm not sure it will be better, just different. |
| Red |
1998 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/2/2007 - mortenef wrote: 91 pointsThis wine puzzeled me a bit. Everything was there : a nice red pure color, a nice complex nose, with hints of all the classics( but only hints), a nice, smooth wellbalanced taste, with a nice semi-long finish, again with classic notes of fruit, minerals and earthy stuff. BUT everything was a bit muffelled, a bit difficult to extract. Maybe everything blossoms in a 2-4 years or so. I´ve still got some bottles, so I wait, hopefully to see a more expressive wine. |
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