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Château Lafite Rothschild Pauillac 1966

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Château Lafite Rothschild Pauillac (1966)

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Winery:: Château Lafite Rothschild
Varietal:: Bordeaux Blend
Region:: France > Bordeaux > Pauillac
Type:: Red Wine
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User Tags: cork, color descriptors, decant, deep, lean, sophisticated, tasting, red, fungi, stone fruits

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Arguably the most renowned wines on earth, the classed growths of Bordeaux continue to epitomize the power and complexity Bordeaux blends are capable of. While most wines here are based on Cabernet Sauvignon, both Merlot and Cabernet Franc play important roles in adding layered complexity to the finished wines, and allow winemakers in each commune within the region to use the blend that is best suited to their unique combination of soil and meso-climate. The most famous communes each have their own classic traits with St. Estephe giving full, if rustic wines, from the heavy clay soils, to Paulliac's elegant balance of ripe fruits, minerality and structure to St. Julien's rich blackberry core and supple feel. Moving to the South of the region brings one to Margaux, with its notes of flowers and berries draped over a feminine frame, and then to the Graves region with wines redolent of tobacco, gravel and smoke. To the East lies the famous appellations of St. Emillion, with its wonderfully ripe Cabernet Franc, and Pomerol where Merlot rules the roost and produces deep, plush wines of uncommon refinement.

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Source: SoDivin

1er Cru Classé

May 2009

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The next year, in New York, a tasting of 1966 first growths to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Christie's wine department: the Lafite was elegant but again a bit 'edgy'. The following week, on the precise anniversary (11 October 1966), of my first sale, at a very grand dinner in the Great Room in King Street, London, no fewer than three imperiales, on magnificent, the others as I shall describe. The best had a good level and a deeply coloured, velvety-ended cork. Bouquet with the fragrance that only Lafite can exude. Lovely flavour, lean, good length. A jolly good drink. I don't read more...

October 2008

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In 1995 a fragrant bottle from the Nicolas cellar in Paris mischievously thrust, blind, by Rodenstock, into a 'flight' of pre-phylloxera chateaux. To be honest it was more than lean. It was a bit raw.

October 2008