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2024 Château Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (96%) Merlot (3%) Petit Verdot (1%)
Not ready (Drink 2035 - 2069)
Jane Anson
95/100
William Kelley
91-94/100
James Lawther MW
17+/20
Antonio Galloni
94-96/100
Neal Martin
95-97/100
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
94-96/100
Shuai Zekun
96-97/100
Jeb Dunnuck
93-95/100
Georgie Hindle
96/100
Product: 20248008857

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2024 Château Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux

Description

96% Cabernet Sauvignon; 3% Merlot; 1% Petit Verdot.

This is one of the wines of the vintage and with the highest proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon since 2016 – also the same blend as the excellent 2021. Attention to detail in this vintage meant 33 passes in the vineyard to manage the mildew organically, in their first year of certified conversion. With its classical architecture, this hints at complexity with openness of fruit and rich ripeness on the finish. The tannins are impressive and ripe. This is a smart wine that transcends the vintage.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2024
Alcohol % 12.5%
Maturity Not ready (2035 - 2069)
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (96%) Merlot (3%) Petit Verdot (1%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Lafite Rothschild

Critics reviews

Jane Anson 95/100
Rich texture, this stands head and shoulders above many in the vintage, with graphite, crayon, cassis bud rather than exuberant black fruits, this is precise, savoury, delineated, floral, gunsmoke, juicy, captures the effortless elegance that Lafite does so so well, and it totally delivers. Harvest 23 September to 7 October, 32hl/h yield, above the Pauillac average, 16% press wine included in the blend. Director Eric Kohler's 33rd year in Pauillac. I am giving a slightly earlier begin drinking date, but I am certain this will age exceptionally well as Lafite always does. Slightly earlier starting date for drinking than usual, eight years following harvest.
Drink 2032 - 2050
Jane Anson, JaneAnson.com (Apr 2025)
William Kelley 91-94/100
A blend of 96% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2024 Lafite Rothschild offers up aromas of minty blackcurrants, violets, incense, loamy soil and cigar box, followed by a medium-bodied, pillowy and open-knit palate built around tangy acids and powdery tannins, concluding with a discreetly herbal finish. Harvest began on September 24 and concluded on October 4, delivering a Lafite in something of a throwback style, nodding to the wines made here in the 1970s.
William Kelley, Wine Advocate (Apr 2025)
James Lawther MW 17+/20

96% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot. 32 hl/ha.First vintage certified organic. Cask sample.

Discreet nose with a dark-fruit nuance and typical Lafite elegance. Suave attack, the tannins smooth and refined. Lots of freshness. Very digeste with innate drinkability but clearly well within itself as well. Touch of oak on the finish. Early days.
Drink 2032 - 2055
James Lawther MW, JancisRobinson.com (Apr 2025)
Antonio Galloni 94-96/100

The 2024 Lafite-Rothschild is a sensual, elegant wine very much in the style of the year. Plush and enveloping, with lovely forward fruit, the 2024 is very Lafite, perhaps a bit reticent, but super-expressive just the same. Black cherry, pomegranate, blood orange and a kiss of espresso all build in the glass, framed by quintessentially finessed Lafite tannins. The 2024 is sublime. I expect it will be one of the to be one of the top wines in the Médoc when all is said and done.
Drink 2034 - 2064
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Apr 2025)
Neal Martin 95-97/100

According to Technical Director Eric Kohler, the 2024 Lafite-Rothschild was picked from September 23 to October 7 and underwent a short vinification—less than three weeks—plus a gentle extraction. The blend includes 16% vin de presse. It has an understated and typical Lafite nose with crushed stone infusing the black fruit, black olive tapenade and marine scents. It comes across as statesmanlike, which is just how you want your First Growth, even in a tricky vintage like this. The palate is medium-bodied with fresh saline notes on the entry. Tensile from the start, this has very impressive focus and is a tad more peppery than previous vintages. This is an assured Lafite-Rothschild with a very seaweed/Japanese wakame-tinged finish. Very promising and one of the very few "cerebral" Left Bank wines in 2024.

Drink 2032 - 2058
Neal Martin, Vinous.com (Apr 2025)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 94-96/100
Deep garnet-purple colored. Has a very perfumed nose of violets, red cherries, and iris, leading to a core of cassis, pencil lead, wild sage, and iron ore with a touch of fertile loam. The light-bodied palate is very light on its feet, issuing a lacy network of elegant red berry and mineral flavors, framed by ripe, fine-grained tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and perfumed.
Drink 2029 - 2049
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, TheWineIndependent.com (May 2025)
Shuai Zekun 96-97/100
A more Burgundian vintage for Lafite, with cedar, graphite, paprika, white pepper and fresh red fruit. Nuanced and refined, with a medium body and understated fruit. Intensity and concentration. It shows the Lafite hallmark of elegance, with more fluidity and crunch this year. Very long and delicate. 96% cabernet sauvignon, 3% merlot and 1% petit verdot.
Shuai Zekun, JamesSuckling.com (Apr 2025)
Jeb Dunnuck 93-95/100
As to the Grand Vin, the 2024 Château Lafite-Rothschild is based on 96% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot, resting in 90% new oak. It has classic Lafite aromatics of cassis, lead pencil shavings, and scorched earth, all leading to a beautifully textured, medium-bodied Pauillac with solid ripeness, a pure, layered mouthfeel, ripe yet present tannins, and outstanding length. It holds plenty of Lafite character while staying in the elegant, balanced, and moderately concentrated style of the vintage. I suspect it will be brilliant with just short-term cellaring, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it evolve gracefully over a broad drinking window.
Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2025)
Georgie Hindle 96/100
Fragranced red berries and purple flowers. Vivid purple colour in the glass. Supple and generous, this has a punch of plum and cranberry fruit straight away, zingy and lively but wonderfully textured too. Chalky, a little bitter, but soft and long. Juicy but more high toned and sleek, tension is there in the live wire nature of the wine. Bright, focussed, not so calm - more energy to the fore with prominent tannins but a lovely weight and plenty of fruit flavour! A vintage where Lafite excels once again. 16% press. 3.75pH. A yield of 32hl/ha.
Drink 2032 - 2046
Georgie Hindle, Decanter.com (Apr 2025)

About this wine

Pauillac

Pauillac

The aristocrat of the Médoc boasts 75 percent of the region’s First Growths, with Grand Cru Classés representing 84 percent of production. Pauillac's First Growths each have their own unique characteristics: Ch. Lafite Rothschild produces the region’s most aromatically-complex and subtly-flavoured wine, while – with its high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon – Ch. Mouton Rothschild can produce a decadently rich, fleshy and exotic wine.
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