Wine Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac AOC 1-er Grand Cru 2003
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Reviews of purchase Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac AOC 1-er Grand Cru 2003
Tasting Notes
Saturated ruby-purple color.
Excellent Château Lafite Rothschild 2003 has a rich, powerful flavor with a very high content of tannins and great length. Amazingly soft and sweet taste charms juicy fruity tones of ripe cherries, plums and red currants, to which are added spicy notes of coffee, tobacco and dark chocolate, and fresh hints of cedar and minerals.
Intense aroma reveals classic notes of graphite, which are interwoven with hints of licorice, chёrnosmorodinovogo liqueur, smoke and flowers.
Château Lafite Rothschild perfectly complement the dishes of red meat and game, whether medallions of beef, venison with berry sauce or lamb in herbs. As a gastronomic couple also well suited foie gras, smoked, stuffed poultry, Parma ham and mature blue cheeses. Before tasting of old wines Château Lafite Rothschild is necessary to decant them for 1-2 hours, but young wines need more time to open up, so depending on the vintage is better to decant them for 2 - 24 hours.
Interesting Facts
The high quality of the famous wine Château Lafite Rothschild speak unnecessarily, as it is known to anyone who has the slightest idea of French wines. Just to say that according to the classification in 1855, this wine has become one of the five best red wines of Bordeaux Premier Grand Cru class and since then it occupies top positions in the hierarchy of the most prestigious wines in the world.
First wine Chateau Laffite was presented at the royal court Nicolas Alexandre de Segur in 1716 and created a furor in court circles of Versailles. It became known as the "King of Wine", and after some time it was served on the finest grand reception not only in France but also in Russia.
In 1868, Château Lafite Rothschild, Baron bought, which is very favorable effect on the further fate of the estate and as its first and second wines. Today, Château Lafite Rothschild is a 100 hectares of excellent vineyards located on the picturesque slopes Poyaka. The average age of the vines here is 40 years (because of this grape is created the first wine farm - Château Lafite Rothschild), but there are 80-year and 100-year-old residents.
Excellent quality wine is primarily due to the uniqueness of the terroir, which mainly consists of limestone soils. At Chateau born small harvests, but the grapes are rich in valuable microelements responsible for the aroma and flavor complexity of the wine. More recently, the term exposure Château Lafite Rothschild was 32-36 months, now it reduced to 18-20 months, but the wine is still stored in traditional oak barrels. In 1995, thanks to the efforts of Charles Chevalier and new technical team management quality wine Château Lafite Rothschild has reached a new, higher level that was achieved through ruthless selection of grapes, for now, only 30-40% of the crop is used to make the first wine estates. Thanks to this innovation today, Château Lafite Rothschild has even greater complexity, charm, elegance, and that is important for the great wines of Bordeaux - longevity!
Amazing Château Lafite Rothschild 2003 is a modern version of the great millesime 1959. The composition of the blend included four grape varieties represented in the following proportions: 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, allowing the wine got even more aromatic and flavor complexity. Vintage 2003 is a mature version of the very essence of Lafite-Rothschild. Thick crimson, with classic notes of graphite, intertwining with liquorice, chёrnosmorodinovym liqueur, smoke and flowers, the wine reveals an extraordinary splendor, strength, purity and strength. Special attention should be paid also by the fact that, despite the extremely high levels of tannins (which are still manifest themselves in the future), the wine has an unusual gentleness and sweetness. According to experts, Château Lafite Rothschild 2003 will be revealed only after the 2010-2012 year and will be at the peak of ripeness to 2050.
