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| | "In style, the most compelling 2024s are intensely flavored middleweights with good structure and energy, exhibiting integrated acidity and ripe tannin." William Kelley, Wine Advocate |
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| | Château Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc 2024 |
| | Château Smith Haut Lafitte 2024 |
| | | | | | ▪ "The 2024 vintage is complex, with significant variations in quality from one producer to the next, the reason is paradoxically simple: ripeness. In the wake of more benign growing seasons, it has been easy to forget that Bordeaux’s is a marginal climate for viticulture. This marginal climate contributes to the region’s strong identity, but it also entails pronounced vintage variation. In 2024, growers that cleared the hurdle of mildew then had to ripen their grapes. Terroir played a role: better-drained, earlier-ripening plots fared best. But the year also rewarded those who took risks in pursuit of fuller maturity—not in quantity, as waiting generally resulted in additional losses to disease, but in quality. While sorting was of critical importance, those who picked too early and sorted rigorously still made mediocre wines. Ripeness, in short, was the critical factor."
William Kelley, Wine advocate
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| ▪ "The 2024 vintage, complicated in its production, will have revealed the heterogeneity that makes the great terroirs of Bordeaux. Thanks to the passion of the winegrowers, their unfailing commitment and current techniques, it has made it possible to obtain wines of a quality incomparable to that of the last rainy vintages. Accessible in their youth, the wines will also make us dream in a few years' time."
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| | ▪“The 2024 Angelus is very fine. It is the first vintage I have tasted that captures the newer approach at Angelus, one where the wine are not as extracted as in the past. Black cherry, plum, spice, new leather and menthol fill out the layers effortlessly. Here too, the wine shows superb balance and real textural presence. The blend is 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, with the Merlot being raised in 80% new oak and 20% once filled barrels, and the Cabernet Franc in equal parts foudres and new smaller French oak barrels. The 2024 is mid-weight, classy and polished.”
93-95
Antonio Galloni, Vinous, Apr 2025
90-93
William Kelley, Wine Advocate, Apr 2025 |
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| ▪“Deep dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, delicate rim brightening. Delicate nougat, a hint of cassis and savouriness, with ripe cherry in the background, fine wood nuances, multi-faceted, inviting bouquet. Taut, medium body, ripe tannins, fresh and elegant, still somewhat closed, mineral, good persistence, this wine definitely needs time to integrate the tannins, sure development and certain ageing potential.”
96
Peter Moser, Falstaff, Apr 2025
94-96
William Kelley, Wine Advocate, Apr 2025
93-95,
Neal Martin, Vinous, Apr 2025 |
| Château Cheval Blanc 2024 |
| | | | ▪“The 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc is a blend of 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Sauvignon Gris and 5% Sémillon, matured in 50% new oak. It needed a bit of aeration in the glass, eventually revealing scents of Anjou pear, gooseberry, white flowers and light flinty aromas. The palate is well balanced with lilting nectarine, pear and stem ginger notes. Fine weight and depth, with a judicious touch of spice towards the finish. The sapidity and linearity of this impressive Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc mean it should repay cellaring.”
94-96
Neal Martin, Vinous, Apr 2025
95
Peter Moser, Falstaff, Apr 2025
92-94
Yohan Castaing, Apr 2025 |
| Château Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc 2024 |
| | | | ▪“Dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, brightening on the edge. Delicate notes of blackberries, a hint of liquorice, still a little shy, a hint of fine oak, red berry nuances. Complex, fine red cherries, fresh acidity, mineral and salty, firm finish, fine cassis notes in the aftertaste, has good ageing potential.”
94
Peter Moser, Falstaff, Apr 2025
92-94
Neal Martin, Vinous, Apr 2025
90-92
Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate, Apr 2025 |
| Château Smith Haut Lafitte 2024 |
| | | | ▪“Dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, delicate edge brightening. Delicate notes of wood, goji berry, tobacco savouriness, some cassis and blackberry, attractive bouquet. Juicy, red berry, lively structure, mineral, a hint of nougat in the aftertaste, elegant and with maturity and certain ageing potential.”
93
Peter Moser, Falstaff, Apr 2025
91-93
Neal Martin, Vinous, Apr 2025 |
| | | | | ▪“The 2024 Montrose has a little more Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend due to the yields in a various parcels. It was picked between September 23 and October 7 and matured in 60% new oak. The well-defined and very able nose demonstrates classicism, fine delineation and a little more florality than the Terrasse III. The palate is medium- bodied with very finely chiselled tannins and a keen line of acidity. The symmetrical Saint-Estèphe is blessed with an elegant, sapid and reassuringly precise finish that the estate seems to have honed in the last few years. It does not have the unbridled ambition of, say the 2020 Montrose, but it is exceptionally well crafted and will become a fine Saint-Estèphe.”
94-96
Neal Martin, Vinous, Apr 2025
93-95
William Kelley, Wine Advocate, Apr 2025
95
Peter Moser, Falstaff, Apr 2025 |
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