CARRUADES DE LAFITE 1998
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 1998
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 1998
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 1998
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 1998
CARRUADES DE LAFITE 1998
If there are several bottles in stock, the displayed photo is not contractual and illustrates the state of conservation of the bottle.
1998

CARRUADES DE LAFITE 1998

The conditions were optimal in terms of earliness, flowering and temperatures during the summer. Then followed a rainy harvest, which raised fears of the worst. Fortunately, the grapes remained impermeable to this water.
The second wine of Château Lafite Rothschild, the "Carruades de Lafite" 1998, reveals a dark color, the nose is strong, expressive, woody, the powerful attack opens on a fruity, balanced mouth with a beautiful final length.

Read more

Condition : Good

In stock 0 bottle
€185.00 Tax excl. €185.00 Tax incl.

Label : Slightly damaged

In stock 0 bottle
€200.00 Tax excl. €200.00 Tax incl.
€200.00 Tax excl.
€200.00 Tax incl.
This product is not available anymore Notify me when available
Do you have bottles for sale ? Get a fair market offer.
Contact us

Expert's opinions

90 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
This has become one of the finest second wines produced. The 1998 (a blend of 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 4.5% Cabernet Franc, and 1.5% Petit Verdot) is an outstanding effort. While very Lafite-like (although more supple and forward), it exhibits a dense rubypurple color in addition to an excellent bouquet of black fruits, smoke, earth, and minerals, supple tannin, an excellent texture, and a long, fine finish.
Read more
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.