CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1988
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1988
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1988
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CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1988
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1988
CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1988
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1988

CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1988

Wine 1988 1er Cru Classé  Bordeaux Pauillac

Thanks to the progress of chemistry, Château Lafite Rothschild emerged victorious from its June battle against oidium (a vine disease). Hot and dry, the summer and the month of September allowed the harvest to reach maturity. Château Lafite Rothschild 1988 is a colorful, powerfully structured and tannic wine.

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95 / 100
Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux June - 2022
Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux
Servi en magnum, il est délicieux en ce moment. J'ai dégusté ce millésime à plusieurs reprises récemment et ce n'est pas le Lafite le plus emblématique, mais il possède un charme si naturel qu'il est tout simplement unique. Tabac, pétales de rose, subtil cèdre grillé et cacao grillé, avec des notes de mûre de Logan et de framboise. Ce Lafite est si gourmand et si agréable qu'il continue à offrir subtilement de nouveaux moments de complexité et de puissance discrète.
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93 / 100
Franck Dubourdieu September - 2007
Franck Dubourdieu
94 / 100
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider January - 2010
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
 Cassis, cedar, tobacco, graphite, earth and spice on the nose. The wine is full bodied, concentrated and still tannic. The fruit is best described at noble. You can sense its good breeding. But there is an austerity and a hint of under ripeness in the finish that takes away from the wine. The long, rich, cassis and rhubarb filled finish is joy, but the sense of under ripeness takes away from the pleasure. Fans of older, more traditional, less ripe wines will like this more than I did.
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94 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate October - 1994
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
Broodingly backward and in need of considerable bottle age, the 1988 is a classic expression of Lafite. This deeply-colored wine exhibits the tell-tale Lafite bouquet of cedar, subtle herbs, dried pit fruits, minerals, and cassis. Extremely concentrated, with brilliantly focused flavors and huge tannins, this backward, yet impressively endowed Lafite-Rothschild may well turn out to be the wine of the vintage.
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La Revue du Vin de France January - 2004
La Revue du Vin de France
17,5/20
Jancis Robinson October - 2002
Jancis Robinson
Robe d'un violet assez profond. Couleur d'encre. Nez très Cabernet. Onctueux et légèrement marqué par l'élégance dansante caractéristique de Lafite. Attaque douce et finale assez sèche, mais très respectable et fidèle au millésime. Assez long.
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Vintage Wine  1988
Classification Médoc - 1er Cru Classé 
Region Bordeaux
Appellation Pauillac
Colour Red
Volume 0.75 l
Country France
Château Château Lafite Rothschild
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, 1945, 1959, 1982, 1986, 1988 and 2000, 2005 in recent years.

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