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2019 Carruades de Lafite, Pauillac
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11.6% of All Producers of Fine Wine 2nd LabelContains the best grapes that don’t make it into the estate’s grand vin
1.9% of All Fine Wine 1st GrowthThe highest ranking for Bordeaux wine
0.7% of Fine Wine Producers in Region Top VintageBehold! One of the finest vintages of this wine ever made.
61.1% of Vinovest WinesWhy We're Buying
Too often, second label wines are an afterthought. They feature all the grapes that don’t make the cut for the estate’s grand vin. Not the case with Chateau Lafite Rothschild 'Carruades de Lafite'. This Bordeaux red blend is the rare example of a second wine that drinks above its label and has the performance to prove it. The 2019 vintage features 68 cabernet sauvignon, 27 merlot, and 5 cabernet franc. It’s the highest percentage of cabernet sauvignon ever for this wine, which gives it a distinctive full-bodied savoriness common among great Paulliacs. Even in youth, 2019 Carruades de Lafite remains highly drinkable and should age gracefully over the next two decades. The Final Sip: In the words of wine critic Jeb Dunnuck, “(2019 Carruades de Lafite) tastes more like a Grand Vin than a second wine.”
Critics Scores
James Suckling
The purity of fruit is so enticing here with strawberries, flowers, lavender and currants. Black earth, too. Some stone and cement. It’s full-bodied with firm, fine tannins. It shows so much cabernet sauvignon character. It’s 68 cabernet sauvignon, 27 merlot and the rest cabernet franc.
Jeb Dunnuck
The second wine of the estate, the 2019 Carruades De Lafite offers a beautiful, Lafite-like bouquet of crème de cassis, cedar pencil, tobacco, and new leather. Gorgeously complex, medium to full-bodied, with silky tannins, and a great finish, it's a brilliant wine that would certainly do just fine in a blind lineup of Lafite. The blend is 68 Cabernet Sauvignon, 27 Merlot, and 5 Cabernet Franc
Decanter
As with the Duhart, this is very Pauillac, with pencil lead and cedar notes, and the highest amount of Cabernet Sauvignon in Carruades to date. Subdued on the nose, but it opens up with a lovely floral character. It starts off with frank, autumnal fruit on the attack, majoring on brambly plum, with tannins that build up through the palate and do their job of tugging things back, putting on the brakes. A little more straight laced than the 2018, but one that you would be more than happy to own and to share. Has the drinkability that Lafite prides itself on.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Carruades de Lafite is a blend of 68 Cabernet Sauvignon, 27 Merlot and 5 Cabernet Franc, harvested from the 19th of September to the 7th of October. Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, it comes skipping out of the glass with bright, fresh notions of wild blueberries, ripe plums and redcurrant jelly plus hints of cinnamon stick, cumin seed, oolong tea and violets with a waft of black olives. Medium-bodied, the palate delivers loads of rich, ripe, spicy flavors with a soft texture of nicely rounded tannins and with the freshness in the background, finishing on a lingering allspice note. In a word: Yum!