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2005 Château Lafite-Rothschild

Light label condition issue

Removed from a temperature and humidity controlled wine storage unit

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Signs of past seepage; base neck fill

Removed from a professional wine storage facility; Purchased as futures

Removed from a professional wine storage facility; Purchased as futures

2 available
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Base neck fill

Removed from a professional wine storage facility; Purchased as futures

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RATINGS

100James Suckling

An incredible nose, so subtle with red fruits, mint, minerals, and all sorts of flowers give way to Cohiba cigar tobacco. The palate has such freshness and density, with perfectly polished tannins.

98Wine Spectator

Full-bodied, with layers of velvety tannins and loads of dark chocolate, cigar box, currant, berry and mineral. The finish is long, with a coffee, almost meaty, aftertaste.

19.5Jancis Robinson

...gorgeous panoply of aromas on the nose... Fresh but ripe with great life and energy. The density of fruit covered the considerable charge of tannin. Such verve! So healthy. Some pure stoniness on the mid palate.

97Stephen Tanzer

Wonderfully suave and seamless, but with great purity and precision of flavor and terrific inner-palate perfume and lift. This dances over every square millimeter of the palate.

96Robert M. Parker Jr.

...it delivers that graphite, pencil-box bouquet that unfurls gradually in the glass, biding its time, graceful but not intense...The palate is medium-bodied and beautifully balanced, to wit, a sophisticated Pauillac that priorities elegance and poise over intensity of fruit...

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Pauillac

Pauillac is Bordeaux’s most famous appellation, thanks to the fact that it is home to three of the region’s fabled first-growth châteaux, Lafite-Rothschild, Mouton-Rothschild and Latour. Perched on the left bank of the Gironde River north of the city of Bordeaux, Pauillac is centered around the commune of Pauillac and includes about 3,000 acres of vineyards. The Bordeaux classification of 1855 named 18 classified growths, including the three above mentioned First Growths. Cabernet Sauvignon is the principal grape grown, followed by Merlot. The soil is mostly sandy gravel mixed with marl and iron. Robert M. Parker Jr. has written that “the textbook Pauillac would tend to have a rich, full-bodied texture, a distinctive bouquet of black currants, licorice and cedary scents, and excellent aging potential.”