August 25, 2023 - Decanted and aerated for two hours then drank over 90 minutes. Blackish crimson color. Nose of black fruits currants, berries, sweet cassis, cigar box, pencil lead, spicy vanilla all reflected on the refined delicate medium bodied palate. Excellent complex and rich structure, great lift and acidity, depth and finishes long with sweet velvety tannins. Delicious wine. Quintessentially Lafite.
August 1, 2023 - Sold via Turville Wine Company in 2019
May 6, 2022 - NOT blind
Light oak nose. Balanced on the mid palate but some acidity in the finish that should hopefully more fully integrate over a few years?
July 11, 2021 - Bordeaux & Pauillac at its best - for me this bottle is 100% à point !!!
+ Preparation : stood upwards for couple of hours and decanted for couple of hours ( it needs it ! )
+ Color : still deeply red, no signs of ageing
+ Nose : stunning, you only need one sniff to know - its gonna be fun tonight.
Refined wood ( oak and some cedar ), licorice, dark fruits, ripe plum, jammy, fleshy
+ Taste : surprisingly, smooth as silk. It slides so well along your teeth and mouth.
Tannins are well rounded and integrated with the acidity, both completely in balance.
+ Finish : heavenly, it lingers around for quite some time, no harshness, not a dry spell to be found.
For me, believe this vintage is now peaking - drink now, but decant for about 2 Hrs.
Pare it with a nice piece of meat and boy, you'll be in for a great night !
Scoring this 98, had the finish been just a tad longer, would have given it 99-100.
Mathijs
April 19, 2020 - Decanted 4 hours and I’m glad I did. Intense aromas of dry cherry, ripe blueberry, licorice, cedar and violet notes. Silky smooth on the palate with a cool wash of ripe dark fruit flavours, super fine tannin and perfect balance of acidity. Excellent purity of fruit, leading to a pleasant warm and peppery satisfying long finish.
June 26, 2019 - Decanted for 2 hours before trying. Medium body, dry - acidic but does not taste of cherry. Some of that classic Pauillac nose. Velvetly smooth tannins. Finish is complex enough but leaves more to be desired.
Luxurious, for sure, but sadly, falls apart when considering QPR. There are better options out there for the price.
March 30, 2019 - Zachy's Lafite Auction (Le Bernardin Prive): Fresh and pump fruit, smells like yoghurt. Enough pencil and classic chateau nose but disjointed on the palate. 88
March 24, 2019 - DFS annual event (Singapore): A very masculine Carruades, this is 42% Merlot but the Cab Sauv is very dominant in this vintage. Solid structure, rich dark fruit, this needs an extensive decant or more time in the cellar.
June 23, 2018 - Day 1 Coravin
Immediately upon pouring: Aromatics are much better than the drink. You can smell this from 6 feet away and its red candy and cream, once your nose is in the glass everything shuts down though. In the drink, a rock solid core of eucalyptus, strawberry rhubarb pie filling and braised beef, unfortunately some drying effects and some bitterness that seems to be fading.
After 20 minutes in the glass, everything coming together very quickly, red berry fruit and glycerin taking center stage. Bitterness receding. Covering it up to check in on tomorrow,
October 7, 2016 - Klar, dyp rød. Mildt parfymert, innsmigrende nese med mørke, røde bær, hint av bjørnebær, mildt blyantspiss, fioler og eik
Ren, vital, slank og fersk frukt med god aromadybde. Moderat konsentrasjon. Mild fruktsødme. Fløyelsmyk tekstur. Milde, lette tanniner. Frisk, saftig syre. Tørr utgang med pen lengde og preg av mørke bærtoner.