(Chateau Smith Haut Lafite Rouge) #3; COLOR-gorgeous dark red; NOSE-big red fruit; enjoying the plum aspect; gorgeous pomegranate on the tail end; some creaminess; PALATE-this wine is not fooling around; very big; great silkiness coming across; beautiful dark cherry flavors on the mid-palate that I like quite a bit; refinement; there's gorgeous REAL tobacco on the 3rd quarter mid-palate transition to the finish; then it hits you with very, very hard with sour cherry meets grainy leaf with a accents of pink cotton candy; really quite pretty; great silkiness, but very dark and very young; tight tannins; this wine is a baby; this is fantastic, but not completely knocking my socks off at this $100 price point; but ultimately, this is just so young and has potential to improve; RP-95; GV-92+
By Gary Vaynerchuk
(Chateau Smith Haut Lafite Rouge) #3; COLOR-gorgeous dark red; NOSE-big red fruit; enjoying the plum aspect; gorgeous pomegranate on the tail end; some creaminess; PALATE-this wine is not fooling around; very big; great silkiness coming across; beautiful dark cherry flavors on the mid-palate that I like quite a bit; refinement; there's gorgeous REAL tobacco on the 3rd quarter mid-palate transition to the finish; then it hits you with very, very hard with sour cherry meets grainy leaf with a accents of pink cotton candy; really quite pretty; great silkiness, but very dark and very young; tight tannins; this wine is a baby; this is fantastic, but not completely knocking my socks off at this $100 price point; but ultimately, this is just so young and has potential to improve; RP-95; GV-92+High Rnd Bordeaux and Rhone Reds, Episode #897, 8/2/2010, (See more on Wine Library TV...) 92+ points