Le Petit Smith Haut Lafitte Rouge 2025
Pessac-Léognan
Bordeaux, France
Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.5% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2030 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2042 |
| Grapes: 60% Cabernet Sauvignon; 40% Merlot | |
"In my view, Le Petit Smith Haut Lafitte 2025 is the finest vintage they have produced since the outstanding 2016, a wine that proved hugely popular with customers and has drunk beautifully in recent years. The 2025 shares many of the same qualities, offering a generous, fleshy and expressive style, packed with ripe dark fruits and subtle smoky nuances, yet balanced by the freshness and precision that are hallmarks of the estate. What makes it particularly appealing is just how much of the character of the Grand Vin shines through. Whilst naturally more approachable in its youth, it possesses a similar sense of richness, polish and harmony, making it one of the most compelling second wines of the vintage."
Gus McLean, Founder
Critic scores
Critic reviews
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Le Petit Smith Haut Lafitte is redolent of blue/purplish fruit, lavender, spice, menthol, new leather, licorice and espresso. Medium in body, with fine energy, Le Petit Smith offers plenty of Cabernet Sauvignon savoriness to match its mid-weight personality."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Le Petit Smith Haut Lafitte is redolent of blue/purplish fruit, lavender, spice, menthol, new leather, licorice and espresso. Medium in body, with fine energy, Le Petit Smith offers plenty of Cabernet Sauvignon savoriness to match its mid-weight personality."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Supple and juicy with both ripe creamy fruit and lively acidity as well as firm structure. I like the Cabernet aspect – blackcurrant leaf, bramble berries, fresh mint, concentrated, dark and cool with a delicious wet stone, flinty, salty aspect. Not too dense but there’s length and good body with a real push of aromas and fragrance as well as intensity of flavour all the way through. Very good. 3.6pH. A yield of 28hl/ha. Began the red harvest from the 3 September to the end."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Pessac-Léognan; 60% Cabernet Sauvignon; 40% Merlot; a final yield of 28 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at the Smith Haut-Lafitte with Fabien Teitgen and Tracey Dobbin). Not so petit! Classical. Poised. Aromatically very expressive. Lovely cedar note replaces the graphite of Les Hauts. This is darker fruited with more susbtance, inky in a way. We have incense, black cherry, black berry, black pepper - all is black! This is a little more serious, but just as succulent and beguiling. Essential, fresh and with a lovely natural sweetness to the fruit. Long and rippling on the lifted finish. The grain of the tannins is finer still, and as with Les Hauts, this is very spherical in form in the mouth."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com