A 100-Point Spectacular, Rich and Powerful White Bordeaux from Smith-Haut-Lafitte.

Subject: A 100-Point Spectacular, Rich and Powerful White Bordeaux from Smith-Haut-Lafitte.

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Considered to be one of Bordeaux’s top white wines, the 2020 Smith-Haut Lafitte Blanc is a rich, concentrated and extremely well-balanced wine. For all the pedigree of this wine, it is a wine that you can actually buy rather than, as is the case for top wines of certain vintages, not being available to most of us mere mortals. At $140, it is also extremely affordable compared to the top whites from 2020. Drink this version now and you will get a very precise, crisp and refreshing wine, or give it a few years and it will become rich, mouth-coating and unctuous. You can’t lose either way.

"Lastly, and pure perfection in white wine, the 2020 Château Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc is based on 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Sauvignon Gris and 5% Semillon that was aged in 50% new oak. This massively rich, concentrated, powerful white offers a heavenly nose of honeyed flowers, orange marmalade, lemon grass, and toasted bread, with a building sense of salinity and minerality that shows on the finish. Drink this stunningly rich, layered, concentrated 2020 over the coming two decades."

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Jeb Dunnuck, Mar 2023

“Aromas of grapefruit, melon, ripe apple, and lemon. Lots of lemon curd as well. Full and layered with plenty of fine phenolics. Energetic and vivid. Minerally and lightly chewy at the end. From organic grapes. 90% sauvignon blanc, 5% sauvignon gris and 5% semillon.”

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James Suckling, Mar 2023

2020 Smith-Haut-Lafitte Blanc

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