2019 Château Lafite Rothschild

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 97 points

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  10/31/2023 - kostaslonis Likes this wine:

  2019 Bordeaux Tasting, MW tasting (Vintner's Hall, London): 94% CS 5% Mer 1% PV, 14.50%, bottle open 2-3hr before
  Amazing depth of fruit, blue and black fruit, gentle and highly extracted, floral notes, showing some fine stalk hints elevating the fruit, the oak is nowhere to be found
  Palate is as glorious as the nose, with balancing acidity, black fruit, full body, long persistent finish, textbook tannins, absolutely brilliant

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  3/19/2023 - ubercuvee wrote:

  Lovely and dense on the nose a palate but I’d honestly struggle to tell this from Lynch-Bages or Pichon-Baron 2019s blind. Probably half a notch better than those but nothing like enough to justify the price tag: Lafite aint Latour (which often most certainly doesn't justify the difference in price, for my palate at least)

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  12/16/2022 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 97 Points

  You know that scene at the end of Twister when they release those ping-pong ball sensors and then the computer lights up with all the data from inside the tornado? That's kind of like what the 2019 Lafite does to your tongue. Okay, it's not a violent tornado and quite the opposite is characteristically serene and placid, but it just lights up every sensory receptor you've got with a swirling array of flavors evoking some of the carob and black truffle elements you ordinarily need to wait longer for, with tannins that somehow manage to be both satiny and incisive. The fruit starts out on the darker end but has turned red by the end of the bottle, which is also when the first indication of any oak comes out. It's a raw rather than toasty wood - I was surprised not to see it come out in that usual pencil-shavings form - and it was the only aspect of this that served as a reminder that I'm not supposed to be drinking this now. But I regret nothing.

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  3/29/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points

  A stunning example of Lafite Rothschild, the wine is deep, ruby in color. The attention seeking perfume serves up its Cuban cigar wrapper, roses, spice box, cedar, lead pencil and array of red fruits and blackberries easily. The most refined of all the First Growths, the 2019 is a modern version of classic Bordeaux at its best. Perfectly balanced, elegant, and deftly situated on the corner of power and harmony, the finish lingers and expands with its layers of sweet, fresh, pure, bright, crisp red fruits, spice, and herbs. The wine blends 94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot. Patient consumers will be rewarded if they are willing to wait before opening a bottle. Drink from 2030-2065.

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  6/8/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points

  This is a beautiful example of what Chateau Lafite Rothschild does best. Dark garnet in color and aromatic, you find lead pencil, cedar, forest, tobacco wrapper, mint and black with red fruit scents. The most elegant of all the First Growths, the wine, classic in nature, is refined, pure, bright, focused, precise and long. There is an intensity that expands as the wine graces your palate, before moving to the finish that is all about the extraordinary purity in the fruits. The wine blends 94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot. The Merlot was harvested September 19-September 25. Cabernet Sauvignon was picked September 22-October 7. The wine reached 13.4% alcohol with pH of 3.9. The Grand Vin was produced from only 40% of the harvest with yields of 38 hectoliters per hectare. 98-100 Pts

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