1974 Château Smith Haut Lafitte

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 91 points

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  1/28/2022 - Sundbyberg wrote: 91 Points

  The colour is light, the fruit has faded and the tannins are long gone, but this wine is actually in perfect harmony and if having consumed this wine 10-15 years ago it probably would have rendered 92-93 pts.
  Bought in a restaurant for 50 euro (dollars), quite a treat and certainly worth buying if you happen to find a well stored bottle. This bottle was perfectly cellared since release.
  They say 1974 was a disaster - but Smith Haut Lafitte made a great wine this year and it has declined in the most graceful way.

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  4/29/1980 - bourgogre Likes this wine:

  Dans le temps , c'était un Graves appellation contrôlée tout simplement,
  et ça ne coûtait que 14$ au Québec , donc l'équivalent de 46$CAN en dollars d'aujourd'hui (2021).
  
  On est épaté de voir le prix de 229$ pour le 2017 sur le site de la SAQ.
  
  Ne demandez pas pourquoi on a abandonné Bordeaux.
  On en a même perdu le goût..
  
  Ce vin là m'avait permis de fêter dignement ma fin de session ...
  
  J'avais mis dans mon cahier:
  
  (***1/2)

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