1986 Château Lafite Rothschild

Community Tasting Notes (242) Avg Score: 95.4 points

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  5/4/2024 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Opening party at Meyer. Tasted semi-blind. Drank in Sydonios Meridional.
  Muscle memory triggered from other bottle of this tasted last month - guessed it correctly.
  Appearance is clear, deep intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of fragrant dark earth, fragrant mint, green bell pepper, tobacco and cigar, elegant graphite, blackcurrant, dark red cherries, red plum, light cassis. Developed.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium- alcohol (12.5%), very smooth fully resolved tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of tobacco cigarbox, minty leaf, elegant graphite, blackberries, dark red cherries, blackcurrant, light cassis. Long finish.
  Excellent quality. Silky elegance, and a complexity that is understated. Slightly more complex than the previous bottle I had. Still considered damm fresh for a 1986. This bottle had a perfect cork.

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  4/26/2024 - RickyT12 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Slow Ox 8 hours
  lighter ruby red color no real bricking.
  This bottle is ripping. Leather, cherry cough drops floral notes like in a damp forest. Lovely. Hint of herbs on the nose. Mouth feel is amazing on this wine. It coats your mouth amazingly and finish is 20 seconds plus. This bottle is firing on all cylinders. Hint of iron, red currant, beautiful perfume notes. This has been one of the better bottles of the 86 that I have had. Lovely wine. 97+

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  3/16/2024 - liber Likes this wine: 92 Points

  4th of 12, decanted 45 minutes, perfect level, cork quite stained and slightly fungal, merest hint of rot on a very fine wine with a remarkable weight of fruit, tannins in this difficult vintage not fully resolved, more to it we thought than the 01 on same night but spoiled increasingly by cork taint (indeed we gave up on it after half the bottle), still rated a fine bottle, clean ones sould be VF+, ie 97+, hard to tell when this wine will peak. (It could be many years ahead!)

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  3/5/2024 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 94 Points

  Epic night at Capasso. Tasted blind. Drank in Grassl Cru.
  Appearance is clear, deep intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of dark earth, mint, tobacco, elegant graphite, blackberries, black cherries. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, medium+ acidity, medium- alcohol (12.5%), integrated smooth medium+ tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of tobacco, minty leaf, elegant graphite blackberries, black cherries, blackcurrant. Long finish.
  Very good quality. Silky elegance led me to guess Margaux appellation. Still quite fresh so I guessed 2000 vintage - off by more than 10 years! Long life ahead if the cork survives - the cork on this bottle crumbled and I had rescued it with a Durand.

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  3/3/2024 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Blind, side by side with Mouton 1986
  Many preferred the Lafite, for me the Mouton was slightly in front. Still too young, elegant and powerful like. The Mouton with the better structure and compared to the last 3-4 bottles in better shape. 2 -3 decades ahead. 97

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