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Smith Haut Lafitte is absolutely pure gold
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100pts Dunnuck: Absolutely Pure Gold
2020 Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte Rouge Pessac Leognan Cru Classe Bordeaux
Jeb Dunnuck released his list of Top 100 wines of 2023 TODAY, and coming in at #6the top-ranked 100-point wineis the 2020 Chteau Smith Haut Lafitte Pessac-Lognan.
Absolutely pure gold, began Dunnucks rave, in which he called this one of the most concentrated, rich, and sexy wines in the vintage. From a spectacular vintage, this is a true wine for the ages, with potential to evolve for the next half century.
Dunnucks Mdoc 100-pointers from the 2020 vintage include Haut Brion, Lafite-Rothschild, and Cheval Blanc, which cost between $700 and $900. The Smith Haut Lafitte delivers the same prestige, collectibility, and outright pleasure at a fraction of the price.
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The Class of Pessac-Lognan
More than 600 years ago, the Du Boscq family homed in on a gravelly plateau that was known locally as Lafitte, but the estate has only truly realized its potential since Florence and Daniel Cathiard bought it in 1990. The two have poured time and money into the chteau, building a new winery and converting the farming to an exacting, organic-informed standard.
In the three decades since they bought Smith Haut Lafitte, the team has focused on individual terroirs and adopted so-called "bio-precision" in the vineyard, using satellites to monitor tiny details. This allows them to time their harvest on a row-by-row basis and sort the grapes multiple timesboth in the vineyard and in the winery, where they use high-tech optical sorting technology to ensure that only perfect berries make it into their wines.
Smith Haut Lafitte has even joined First Growth Chteaux Lafite, Margaux, and Haut-Brion as the rare Bordeaux properties with on-site cooperages. It doesnt get more hands-on than that, and the devotion to quality shines through in every sip.
Wine Access Tasting Note
Deep purple in color, with a dense, dark center. Pronounced, gorgeous aromas of blueberries, rich earth, fresh acacia, piles of violets, fresh blackberries, toasted cinnamon stick, fresh vanilla bean, and cracked graphite. On the palate, a densely interwoven masterpiece of ripe tannin, fresh acidity, and layered flavors of fresh Damson plums, cassis, pencil shavings, freshly crushed spearmint, elderberries, and roses. This is truly a wine for the ages. Drink now2070.
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14.50
Full Fruit Intensity
Fruit
Full Oak Intensity
Oak
Large Body
Body
Large Acidity
Acidity
Full Tannin
Tannin
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