CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1983
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1983
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1983
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1983
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1983
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1983
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1983
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1983
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1983

CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1983

Wine 1983 1er Cru Classé  Bordeaux Pauillac
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94 / 100
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider February - 2024
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
Charming, elegant, soft, silky and fresh, it was a rather nice surprise. The fruits are ripe, refined, sweet and vibrant. Medium-bodied, with a real sense of class and regal character, it's all in its charming style. No need for decanting, just pour and enjoy. Drink from 2024 to 2034.
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93 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate January - 1998
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
Finally, the 1983 Lafite is beginning to shed its tannin. The wine exhibits a deep rubygarnet color with only a slight lightening at the edge. The intoxicatingly perfumed nose of lead pencil, pain grille, red and black fruits, minerals, and roasted herbs is provocative. In the mouth, this wine displays considerable body for a Lafite, plenty of power, and a fleshy, rich, sweet mid-palate. Long, elegant, plump, and surprisingly fleshy, this outstanding example of Lafite seems largely forgotten given the number of high quality vintages during the golden decade of the eighties.
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17 / 20
Jancis Robinson May - 2018
Jancis Robinson
The first of a trio of wines – 1983, 1985 and 1986 – served blind. Struck by a leafiness on the nose that I associate with some of the less successful 1985s at this stage in their lives I foolishly plumped for 1985 when it was clearly the least impressive of the trio and I had no memory of Lafite 1983. The wine was certainly polished, light sweet and open – and now a bit skinny. There are probably enough pointers there too have steered me to 1983 but the most recent 1983 I tasted was Ch Margaux which was of course famously successful in this vintage. This Lafite 1983 was pretty but was losing fruit.
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90 / 100
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Franck Dubourdieu
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92 / 100
Falstaff January - 2010
Falstaff
Strong ruby garnet, delicately ochre-tinged, broader water rim. On the nose dark berry fruit, delicate mint, ripe plum fruit, fine chocolate hint, of eucalyptus, some honey caramel, some velours and exotic spices. On the palate fresh, red berry nuances, delicate, of morello cherries, blackcurrant, has breeding, pleasant citrus hints, shines with freshness and saline minerality, a seductive, delicate wine, adheres well, somewhat rough tannins, great aging potential, overall restrained.
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90 / 100
Tom Cannavan January - 2000
Tom Cannavan
The colour is a very dark, solid ruby with a warm amber rim. The nose on this wine is just sensational. Big, sweet, vegetal fruit with deeply scented blackcurrant aromas emerging as well as baked plums and a background of cedar wood. The palate is just a little lean. The tannins are very, very grippy with quite high acidity too and the whole effect is very drying with fruit not showing through to give real integration and balance. Many tasters thought this too young from the grip of the tannins and the quite youthful colour. That may well be right, but I have tasted all the other 1st growth '83s and the super-seconds and since these are without exception already mature, I just have a niggling doubt whether this will come good in the many years it still needs to shed those ferociously grippy tannins. Wonderful nose, but just a little worrying on the palate - though I could well be proved wrong.
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Vintage Wine  1983
Classification Médoc - 1er Cru Classé 
Region Bordeaux
Appellation Pauillac
Colour Red
Volume 0.75 l
Country France
Alcohol content 13.00% vol
Château Château Lafite Rothschild
Château Lafite Rothschild
Château Lafite Rothschild

Château Lafite Rothschild is one of the oldest and most prestigious estates in the Pauillac appellation, on the Left Bank of Bordeaux. Its origins date back to the Middle Ages, but it was in the 18th century that the château gained international renown, particularly among the European courts. In the 1855 classification, Château Lafite Rothschild was classified as a Premier Grand Cru Classé, durably enshrining its status at the very top of the Bordeaux hierarchy.

In the Rothschild family's possession since 1868, the estate rests on a terroir of fine, deep gravels perfectly suited to Cabernet Sauvignon. The wines of Château Lafite Rothschild are distinguished by their finesse, aromatic precision and balance, favouring elegance and length over demonstrative power.

Aged in new oak barrels, the wines focus on fine tannin grain, freshness and length rather than power, and require time before opening up. The estate's great reference points range from the 1982 wine, which ushered in the modern era, to the 1989 vintage and the 1996 wine for the end of the century, then to 2009 and the 2010 vintage, two consecutive years at the pinnacle of the recent period. Carruades de Lafite, more influenced by Merlot and drawn primarily from the eponymous plateau, offers the most accessible expression.

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