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Smith Haut Lafitte Rouge 2024
Pessac-Leognan, Grand Cru Classé
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The 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte is raw and not fully formed. Today the tannins are imposing. There's good energy and depth in the glass, but the 2024 is very backward. Floral and spice notes emerge with air, but for the time being, Smith Haut Lafitte is a bit of a mystery. Score: 91 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 Date: 29 April 2025 |
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Toasted cedar and sandalwood oak on the nose, the team as Smith Haut-Lafitte has done a lovely job of adding a gourmet lick of grilled blueberry and raspberry fruits to the opening moments of the wine, alongside richer damson and black cherry in the mid-palate. Great energy, lift and juice, vivid fruits, graphite, ink, chalk tannins, slimmer through the mid palate than in the bigger vintages, but everything in its place. 21hl/h yield, 60% new oak. Fabien Teitgen technical director. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 Date: 23 April 2025 |
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Notes of spices, oak, dark berries and gentian preface the 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte, a medium-bodied, firm and structured wine with an assertive tannic frame that leads to a compact, gentian-inflected finish. This blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, matured in 60% new oak, is somewhat introverted and linear, making it a chewy Smith Haut Lafitte that will need time to unwind. YC Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2036 Date: 23 April 2025 |
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