CARRUADES DE LAFITE 2008
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 2008
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 2008
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 2008
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 2008
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 2008
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2008

CARRUADES DE LAFITE 2008

The viticultural season was placed under surveillance due to a cold winter and a few frosts in the spring. Indeed, the flowering was not very productive and the permanent humidity favored diseases. The moderately hot summer finally gave way to a beautiful month of September, allowing us to wait for the complete maturity of the grapes, with late harvests.
The second wine of Château Lafite Rothschild, the "Carruades de Lafite" 2008, reveals a beautiful dense and brilliant color. The nose is expressive of red fruits with nice smoky notes. A frank and precise attack on the palate, then the expression densifies and lengthens. A well-balanced wine with a hint of liveliness then silky on the finish. It is made from 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc.

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93 / 100
Falstaff March - 2012
Falstaff
Dark ruby garnet, violet reflections. Dark berry fruit with a delicate vegetal underlay on the nose, leafy spiciness, tobacco, delicate nougat. Juicy, initially more red berries on the palate, fine blueberry confit, fine tannins, mineral and salty finish, fresh cherries in the aftertaste, lemony touch in the aftertaste.
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91 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
Tasted ex-chateau and single blind in Southwold. The nose is more ostentatious than its peers, lifted blackberry, cassis and cedar aromas, a more hedonistic Pauillac along not dissimilar lines to Pontet Canet? The palate is medium-bodied with succulent tannins on the entry. Supple in the mouth, very smooth and seductive with a seamless finish. There is a touch of hickory developing on the aftertaste. Very fine and better than I expected given previous encounters.
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16,5/20
Jancis Robinson January - 2012
Jancis Robinson
  Medium intensity showing some evolution. Pretty light nose. A bit of rawness on the finish. Second wine? Doesn’t really hang together.
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91 / 100
Wine Enthusiast July - 2011
Wine Enthusiast
  Smooth and ripe, with some softness as befits a second wine. The fruit is open, ripe, generous. The effect is of a fruity Merlot based wine, with just enough weight.
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90 / 100
Jeannie Cho Lee April - 2009
Jeannie Cho Lee
 Dark, ripe, forest berries with hint of cedar. Elegantly woven and well balanced red with layers of flavours. Reserved at the moment but all the components show potential to open/age. Wonderfully knit tannins with fairly long finish.
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Region Bordeaux
Appellation Pauillac
Colour Red
Volume 0.75 l
Country France
Château Lafite Rothschild
Château Lafite Rothschild

Château Lafite Rothschild, 1st growth in 1855, is one of Bordeaux's most famous chateaux. It shares with the greatest the top of the official classification of 1855. Located on the Pauillac appellation, the vineyard of 103 ha is divided into three parcels: the hills surrounding the Château, the Carruades plateau to the west and a parcel of 4.5 ha in the neighboring town of Saint-Estèphe. Most of the terroir is composed of fine and deep gravel mixed with Aeolian sand on a tertiary limestone bedrock. The grape varieties are 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot. The average age of the vineyards of the great wine is 40 years, the 20 ha of young vines (less than 10 years) being used for the development of the second wine. There are also extremely old plots of over 80 years, one called "La Gravière" dating back to 1886. The maturation of the wine is carried out for 18 to 20 months in 100% new oak barrels. Lafite Rothschild produces about 15,000 to 20,000 cases per year. The estate also produces a second wine, the Carruades de Lafite, for around 25,000 to 30,000 cases. The name of the second wine of Chateau Lafite Rothschild of the "plateau Carruades, where stood a group of plots, which was bought by the castle in the nineteenth century, and which adjoined the rump Castle. The "Carruades de Lafite" were once called "Moulin des Carruades", then take the name, Carruades de Lafite.

The mythical vintages of Chateau Lafite Rothschild are 1921, 19451959198219861988 and 2000, 2005 in recent years.