Lafite - 2010 (750ml) viner 29 crisp green apples and flowers

crisp green apples and flowers emerge from Piper-Hiediesck’s NV Brut Cuvee

One of the greatest young wines I have ever tasted

Petit Verdot and Merlot

It contains 4% Cabernet Sauvignon and was aged for 16 months in 100% new American oak hogsheads

and appears capable of surpassing the fabulous 1985 and 1982

Lafite - 2010 (750ml) viner 29 crisp green apples and flowersThe 2010 Lafite Rothschild, a blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon and 13% Merlot (a 3% difference from the barrel sample shown two years ago), achieved relatively high alcohol of 13. 32%, according to administrator Charles Chevalier. The wine is very impressive, not as fleshy, flamboyant and massive as the 2009, but nevertheless, a big, rich, full throttle Lafite Rothschild meant to age a half century or more. Deep purple, with notes of white chocolate,