Community Tasting Notes 248

• Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  April 17, 2024 - Bottles donated from the Lafite Rothschild cellar. Seriously good! The nose draws you in with such pure cassis fruit, violet florals and lead pencil. Luscious fruits surround the high tensile, graphite spine. It is rich and voluminous yet so focused and detailed. It is fresh, youthful and has terrific length.

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• MichielV wrote: 95 points

  April 14, 2024 - At Renee and Gerry (+Melissa and Andrew). With great salmon dish. What a spectacular bottle. Super fresh. Great color, nose and the whole thing. No words to describe how great this is. Super long life left but why wait. Very spoiled that i got to drink this.

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• G SQUARED Does not like this wine: 85 points

  March 24, 2024 - Must’ve been a bad bottle. Lean, austere, lacking fruit. Decanted for two hrs to see if it helped. A little but not to the extent it should have.

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• acyso wrote: 95 points

  February 22, 2024 - (Not a) birthday dinner (Hinsdale, IL): To be sure, not at the level of the ex-domaine bottle at a HDH tasting a few years back. Others felt it thin, and they were right. But that is more a statement relative to great bottles of this wine, but this is nevertheless incredible Bordeaux (though not at the level of Latour). This is everything that you want in a Pauillac -- all that cedar, leather, and dark fruit. It's still intense and brilliant with tons of complexity and still a fair bit of grainy tannin. This is one of the best vintages of this generally overrated estate.

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• Jeff Leve wrote: 96 points

  February 4, 2024 - The best example of this wine I have ever tasted was simply beautiful. The dried flowers, cedar, tobacco, and spicy red currant perfumed notes were the perfect introduction. The palate was clearly its equal, as the textures balanced suppleness, with vibrancy, refinement, and elegance, finishing with purity in the red fruits and almost soft, creamy tannins. Just starting to wake up, this is going to age for decades. Drink from 2024-2060.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1990
• 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, 1000000000121, 3419466188103, 3700274110807, 9300633425111

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 118 (1%)
• In Cellars 7,612 (75%)
• Consumed 2,460 (24%)

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