Wine Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac AOC 1-er Grand Cru 2005
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Cabernet Sauvignon: 89%, Merlot: 11%
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Reviews of purchase Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac AOC 1-er Grand Cru 2005
Tasting Notes
Saturated ruby-purple color.
Château Lafite Rothschild 2005 has a sophisticated style and a smooth texture with abundant but ripe tannins. Rich, multi-layered taste fascinates amazingly clean tones of ripe fruit and black currants, which are interwoven with hints of minerals, cedar, flowers and underbrush.
Luxury bouquet reveals notes of lead pencil, mixed with aromas of violets, rose petals, resins, minerals, sweet berries and black currant.
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!
Exquisite Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2005 has a more sophisticated style, which contrasts strongly with the pomp, extravagant wealth of 2003, and bold, powerful force of 2000. Despite this, the Château Lafite 2005 has a high content of alcohol (13%) compared to the grand vintages. The creation of the aristocratic millesime 2005 took only 40% of the crop, and the blend included 3 grape varieties: 88.8% Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and 10.7% 0.5% - Petit Verdot. Sredneteloe, sweet, high in tannin, amazing Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2005 is focused on the complexity, rather than force and is extremely elegant style of Bordeaux. This brilliant wine from Charles Chevalier will be at the peak of development between 2015 and 2050.
