Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte - Pessac-Léognan White 2018 (750ml)
Price: $149.00
Sale Price: $135.00
| Producer | Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pessac-Leognan |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 98 Points
Dried apple, apricot, grapefruit zest, flint and a hint of hay on the nose. It’s full-bodied with crisp acidity and tight, concentrated layers of fresh and dried fruit. Incredible depth and focus. Even better from 2022."
Jeb Dunnuck: 98 Points
The Grand Vin 2018 Château Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc ratchets everything up a notch, offering a vividly fresh bouquet of crushed citrus, salty minerality, caramelized grapefruit, acacia flowers, and toast. It's rich, medium to full-bodied, and racy on the palate, with bright acidity, yet it still brings beautiful concentration of fruit as well as length on the finish. This is a brilliant white in every way. Give bottles another year or three and enjoy over the following 10-15. I suspect it will evolve well beyond that as well.
It’s another thrilling wine from this estate as well as one of the top whites in the vintage.
Decanter: 98 Points
The 2018 seems much less woody than its predecessors. It has both a delicate and fresh bouquet, with orchard fruit, apricot, pear and peach aromas together with hints of citrus and spring flowers. The palate is profound, full-bodied and fleshy, and the structure is perfectly balanced. Beautifully pure, this wine needs five to eight years of ageing but will keep for 20 years or more. Drinking Window: 2025 - 2040
Wine Spectator: 97 Points
Already very full in feel, with alluring tangerine, verbena, orange blossom, bitter almond and brioche notes. Long and lush, this is coming together in a hurry and is set to be one of the showier wines of the vintage. Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Sauvignon Gris. 94-97
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
The Smith Haut Lafitte 2018 Blanc is a blend of 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Sémillon and 5% Sauvignon Gris, aged in 50% new oak barriques. The nose hits the ground running with vibrant notions of fresh grapefruit, yuzu zest and lemon tart, plus touches of lime leaves, sea spray, green mango and wet pebbles. The medium to full-bodied palate quivers with energetic citrus and mineral-inspired flavors, charged with fantastic tension and delivering a gorgeous silkiness to the texture, finishing long and steely. A bedazzling Pessac-Leognan that cannot fail to impress, it should show best after a couple of years of cellaring and then drink for a good 15+ years.
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