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Smith Haut Lafitte

"The color came quickly during the fermentation but not the volume or the flavor," said technical director Fabien Teitgen. "We macerated with minimal movement, doing very slow pumpovers because the tannins from the seeds were not ripe enough, and even after three weeks there wasn't much extraction. The volume only came in the fourth week and afterwards. But a lot of wines in 2007 were overextracted: they don't have the volume and concentration to support their tannins." Like some of his more successful colleagues in 2007, owner Daniel Cathiard maintained that his estate could not have achieved a good maturity level in its fruit had vine yields been higher; Smith Haut Lafitte produced just 35 hectoliters per hectare, he told me.

From 2007, 2006 and 2005 Bordeaux (May 2008) by Stephen Tanzer

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2006 Pessac-Leognan

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