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• liber Likes this wine: 95 points

  April 11, 2024 - 10th of 24, decanted 2 hours, perfect cork and level, touch down from bottle last Feb, super nuance and persistence just a tad angular and austere, a fine run thing between fruit and tannin and slight lack of grip, probable upside, 20+ years. VF (18.5).

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• LDA ZH CH Likes this wine: 96 points

  March 8, 2024 - Pop and pour. Aromatic density off the charts. At first a bit tight with chiseled tannins, but then the wine opened up softened. Palate profile is clearly cabernet: leafy (but not in a bad way), black & red fruits, bit of blood orange. Really complex and elegant

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• aquacongas wrote: 95 points

  March 3, 2024 - blind, side by side with Shafer Hillside select 1995
  No chance against the Cali Cab. Elegant, reluctant and some dark cassis notes. 95

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• etyc Likes this wine:

  March 1, 2024 - Decanted for ~3hrs prior to serving. Scents of pencil-lead/graphite, cigar, tobacco, cedar burst forth from the glass without coaxing - what a beautiful Pauillac nose... Not much of secondary notes on the palate, this was red-to-dark fruited with nice weight/concentration, it had excellent freshness albeit a slightly dry finish. Showing nicely, but should still improve with more cellar time.

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• Alex G. Likes this wine:

  February 21, 2024 - This is textbook left bank, soaring nose of graphite. I was pleasantly surprised by how refined and supple the tannins were, this had a wonderful mouthfeel. I don't generally prefer left bank Bordeaux, and even Lafite doesn't escape from the common problem I perceive: it's not especially complex, and ultimately seems like a "one note song." If you like that one note though, this will be a hit. Certainly one of the better left bank Bordeaux I can recall in some time, and that mouthfeel was a notch above most Lafite I've had.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1995
• Type Red
• Producer Château Lafite Rothschild
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Pauillac
• UPC Codes 000000147385, 018138415528, 087000330962, 3419466188103, 3700274110807, 9300633425111

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 92 (1%)
• In Cellars 6,618 (71%)
• Consumed 2,605 (28%)

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