2023 Château Smith Haut Lafitte

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 97 points

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  5/4/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points

  The nose shoots out its tobacco, smoke, camphor, spice, floral, and black, with red fruits with only a swirl or two. The palate is even better with its fresh, energetic, black, with red fruit profile, along with its array of spices, chewy tannins, blue fruits, smoke, and dark chocolate. The wine is long, intense, focused, and complex, with a nice aromatic display in the mouth in the finish, which sticks with you for almost 50 seconds. The key to the vintage was finding the right dates to harvest coupled with a soft, gentle extraction. Picking took place from September 22 - October 5. The wine is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, and is aging in 60% New, French oak barrels for 18 months. 14% ABV. pH 3.65. Drink from 2028-2055. 96-98 Pts.

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  5/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote: 97 Points

  96-98 Punkte. Nach einem heissblütigen 22er zeigt der 23er Smith Haut Laffite ungemein viel Frische; komplexes Duftbild, tiefgründig, kühl im Ausdruck; frischer, rassiger Gaumen, gradlinig, mit Biss, top Tanninqualität, viel Dynamik, grosser Spannungsbogen; hervorragende Länge. Sehr Bordeaux, sehr energetisch. (En Primeur Tasting April 2024)

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