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| | | | | ▪ "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 Lafite-Rothschild is a sensual, elegant wine very much in style of the year. Plush and enveloping, with lovely forward fruit, the 2024 is very Lafite, perhaps a bit reticent, but super-expressive just the same. Black cherry, pomegranate, blood orange and a kiss of espresso all build in the glass, framed by quintessentially finessed Lafite tannins. The 2024 is sublime. I expect it will be one of the top wines in the Médoc when all is said and done."
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous, Apr 2025
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| ▪“Rich texture, this stands head and shoulders above many in the vintage, with graphite, crayon, cassis bud rather than exuberant black fruits, this is precise, savoury, delineated, floral, gunsmoke, juicy, captures the effortless elegance that Lafite does so so well, and it totally delivers. Harvest 23 September to 7 October, 32hl/h yield, above the Pauillac average, 16% press wine included in the blend. Director Eric Kohler's 33rd year in Pauillac. I am giving a slightly earlier begin drinking date, but I am certain this will age exceptionally well as Lafite always does. Slightly earlier starting date for drinking than usual, eight years following harvest.”
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Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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| | ▪“The 2024 Carruades de LaLafite is plush, sensual and inviting right out of the gate. Soft contours wrap around a core of plum, black cherry, gravel, incense, licorice and baking spice. This is a rare Carruades that is Merlot-driven. It’s a balance that works quite well. This showy, inviting Carruades is quite the charmer.”
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous, Apr 2025
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Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux, Apr 2025
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