2014 Carruades de Lafite

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé

Bordeaux

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

47% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot (2024 vintage)

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Drinking Window

2024 - 2028

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Château Lafite-Rothschild's 2014s are powerful and tightly wound, part of which is probably the result of a high %age of Cabernet Sauvignon in the wines. Both wines were a bit more overt from barrel than they are today.

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Like pretty much all of his peers, Charles Chevalier was faced with a long, drawn out veraison that resulted in an uneven state of maturation that required quite a bit of green-harvesting to remove bunches that had not turned color by mid-August, a phenomenon that was present in the three properties in the Domaines Barons de Rothschild stable (Duhart-Milon, Lafite-Rothschild and L'Evangile). Chevalier compares the 2014s at Lafite to the 2008s, which had similar acidity levels. Malos were done in steel. Blending started in January and was done by March.