Appellations

Lafon Rochet 2024

St Estephe, Fourth Growth

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Tasting Notes

The 2024 Lafon-Rochet is sleek, elegant and polished, as it so often is. Silky tannins and lifted floral overtones are immediately alluring. Soft but persistent, with fine balance, the 2024 has a lot to offer. Punchy red/purplish fruit, blood orange, spice and new leather are beautifully delineated. There's a high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in this vintage, and yet it is the personality of site that speaks loudest. Lafon-Rochet is always a bit lithe. That quality is present in 2024, although a second sample showed more overt body. Tasted two times.

Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2044 Date: 29 April 2025

This is juicy, drawn out, balanced, elegant, showing lean black fruits laced with fennel and anis, plenty of slate tannins, just a little leafy on the finish. 3.67 pH. 40% new oak, highest proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon on record.

Score: 91 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 Date: 23 April 2025

The 2024 Lafon-Rochet offers up aromas of pipe tobacco, sweet berries and fresh herbs, followed by a medium-bodied, soft and open-knit palate.

Score: 87 - 89 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Date: 23 April 2025