Château Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc 2024
Pessac-Léognan Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£643.00
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Arriving: Spring 2027
| Style: White | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 0.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2028 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2040 |
| Grapes: 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Sémillon, 5% Sauvignon Gris | |
Critic scores
92-94 RP, 94-96 NM, 95-97 AG, 97-98 JS, 17+ JR, 94 JA, 93-95 JL
Critic reviews
"Floral and complex, the 2024 Blanc from Smith Haut Lafitte offers up aromas of white peach, apricot, spices and spring blossoms. Medium-bodied, round and layered, it's sappy and seamless with an incisive mid-palate and a long, ethereal and refreshing finish. Matured in 50% new oak, this blend of 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Sémillon and 5% Sauvignon Gris represents a strong effort."
Yohan Castaing, April 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc is a blend of 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Sauvignon Gris and 5% Sémillon, matured in 50% new oak. It needed a bit of aeration in the glass, eventually revealing scents of Anjou pear, gooseberry, white flowers and light flinty aromas. The palate is well balanced with lilting nectarine, pear and stem ginger notes. Fine weight and depth, with a judicious touch of spice towards the finish. The sapidity and linearity of this impressive Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc mean it should repay cellaring."
Neal Martin, April 2025, Vinous.com
"The 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc is complex, dynamic and an absolute delight. Everything about the 2024 speaks to class. Brisk acids drive through a core of citrus fruit, almond, mint, chamomile and white pepper. More than anything else, I admire the wine's tension and energy. Clean saline notes extend the dry, bracing finish."
Antonio Galloni, April 2025, Vinous.com
"Minerals, smoke, tarragon and bright lemons on the nose. An almost full-bodied, textured white that delivers lots of freshness, weight and brightness on the palate. There is attractive salinity at the end before a long yet broad finish. 90% sauvignon blanc, 5% semillon and 5% sauvignon gris."
James Suckling, May 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Toasted cedar and sandalwood oak on the nose, the team as Smith Haut-Lafitte has done a lovely job of adding a gourmet lick of grilled blueberry and raspberry fruits to the opening moments of the wine, alongside richer damson and black cherry in the mid-palate. Great energy, lift and juice, vivid fruits, graphite, ink, chalk tannins, slimmer through the mid palate than in the bigger vintages, but everything in its place. 21hl/h yield, 60% new oak. Fabien Teitgen technical director."
Jane Anson, April 2025, JaneAnson.com
"Aromatically subtle and refined with a handsome depth of fruit. Beautiful texture, the fruit ripe and dense. Needs a little coaxing but the fruit is plush and zesty. Clean, long finish."
, JancisRobinson.com
Yohan Castaing, April 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc is a blend of 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Sauvignon Gris and 5% Sémillon, matured in 50% new oak. It needed a bit of aeration in the glass, eventually revealing scents of Anjou pear, gooseberry, white flowers and light flinty aromas. The palate is well balanced with lilting nectarine, pear and stem ginger notes. Fine weight and depth, with a judicious touch of spice towards the finish. The sapidity and linearity of this impressive Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc mean it should repay cellaring."
Neal Martin, April 2025, Vinous.com
"The 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc is complex, dynamic and an absolute delight. Everything about the 2024 speaks to class. Brisk acids drive through a core of citrus fruit, almond, mint, chamomile and white pepper. More than anything else, I admire the wine's tension and energy. Clean saline notes extend the dry, bracing finish."
Antonio Galloni, April 2025, Vinous.com
"Minerals, smoke, tarragon and bright lemons on the nose. An almost full-bodied, textured white that delivers lots of freshness, weight and brightness on the palate. There is attractive salinity at the end before a long yet broad finish. 90% sauvignon blanc, 5% semillon and 5% sauvignon gris."
James Suckling, May 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Toasted cedar and sandalwood oak on the nose, the team as Smith Haut-Lafitte has done a lovely job of adding a gourmet lick of grilled blueberry and raspberry fruits to the opening moments of the wine, alongside richer damson and black cherry in the mid-palate. Great energy, lift and juice, vivid fruits, graphite, ink, chalk tannins, slimmer through the mid palate than in the bigger vintages, but everything in its place. 21hl/h yield, 60% new oak. Fabien Teitgen technical director."
Jane Anson, April 2025, JaneAnson.com
"Aromatically subtle and refined with a handsome depth of fruit. Beautiful texture, the fruit ripe and dense. Needs a little coaxing but the fruit is plush and zesty. Clean, long finish."
, JancisRobinson.com
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