Tasting Notes: Dark crimson. Some ripe red fruit on the nose. Polished tannins and there is energy here. This sample seems to have a more convincing core than yesterday's sample tasted at the…

Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte (750ml) available at Beverage Lovers Warehouse in Valley Stream, NY

96-98 Barrel Sample. In a line of great white wines from this estate, here is a superb vintage. It has all the richness of ripe fruit, but that has been channeled into structure, density as well as…

2023 Jeb Dunnuck TOP 100 #6

Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte - Pessac Leognan Rouge 2020 (1.5L) available at Knightsbridge Wine Shoppe in Northbrook, IL

I think the greatest Smith Haut Lafitte to date (possibly matched by the 2018), the 2009 Château Smith Haut Lafitte tastes like it did on release, offering a smorgasbord of Graves magic in its smoked…

100 Wa / 100 Jd / 98 Wci / 97 Ja / 96 Ws / 96 JS / 18 Jr. The finest wine ever made by proprietors Daniel and Florence Cathiard, the 2009 Smith-Haut-Lafitte exhibits an opaque blue/purple color in…

Absolutely pure gold and reminding me of the 2009 (or is it the 2010?), the 2020 Château Smith Haut Lafitte sports a dense purple hue to go with incredible aromatics of blackberries, blueberries,…