Carruades de Lafite 2025
Pauillac
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£852.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: |
| ABV: 12.7% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2032 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2045 |
| Grapes: 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot | |
Critic scores
91-93 RP, 92-94 NM, 92-94 AG, 95-96 JS, 93-95 JD, 93-95 LPB, 93 JA, 95 DC, 93-95 JL, 94-96 DB
Critic reviews
"A blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 9% Cabernet France and 2% Petit Verdot, the 2025 Carruades de Lafite exhibits notes of sweet plums and berries mingled with notions of orange zest, cedar and cigar wrapper. Medium- to full-bodied, supple and fleshy, with powdery tannins, lively acids and a gently chalky finish, it checks in at 12.5% alcohol."
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Carruades de Lafite has quite an understated bouquet that needs a little more encouragement than usual. Blackberry, pencil box and light estuarine scents gradually unfurl. Fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied, with sapid black fruit on the entry, gentle grip, wonderful balance and plenty of freshness and brightness on the finish. What a superb Carruades."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Carruades de Lafite is a total stunner. It's a great example of how Bordeaux has come along in the last few decades, in that it could have easily been a Grand Vin from another generation—maybe not from a great year, but from many years. Brisk acids and strong floral overtones immediately convey energy. Hints of lavender, rose petal, graphite and spice box are classic Lafite; all the Carruades lacks vis-à-vis its sibling is the classic Lafite mid-palate. This should blossom beautifully with time, and I would be in no rush to open it. What a delight."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"An incredibly elegant second wine (which is classic Lafite), the 2025 Carruades De Lafite has cassis, raspberries, crushed violets, graphite, and spicy wood on the nose. Based on 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot, it's medium-bodied on the palate, with a very pure, focused mouthfeel, polished tannins, and flawless balance. It checks in at 12.69% alcohol with a pH of 3.62."
Jeb Dunnuck, May 2026, JebDunnuck.com
"The energy in the glass in immediately in evidence, richly fragrant autumnal berry fruit, great lift through the palate, mouthwatering on the finish, good balance, chalky, slate-filled tannins, classic, balanced, slate and pumice stone, lots of cassis and bilberry fruit, harvest September 2 - 20. 3.8ph."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Upfront and instantly so welcoming and friendly and fun, bright, lively, full on acidity kicks off the expression – so lifted with the focus on the pure fruit. Salty undercurrent that gives such an incredible contrast to the ripe strawberry fruit. But this is also lacking no richness – it’s got muscles, power, concentration and such capacity to age. Fabulous. 2% Petit Verdot completes the blend."
, Decanter.com
"(Pauillac; 55% Cabernet Sauvignon; 34% Merlot; 9% Cabernet Franc; 2% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 27 hl/ha; 12.5% alcohol; tasted with Eric Kohler at Duhart-Milon). More relaxed and less dark-fruited than Duhart with neither the damsons nor the intensity of the dark briary fruits. There's more cherry and stone fruit, bramble and black berry accompanied by a lovely wild herbal note. Ample in frame, more so than Duhart, this really pushes into the cheeks but it's so soft that the impression is rather deceptive. There's impressive tension, the acidity super-well integrated across the length of the palate. The tannins are a little more present and granular on the finish, but they are very elegant and refined in the same breath. The acidity is beautifully integrated and the tannins infiltrate between the layers revealing, as they do so, the depth and profundity of this gorgeous Pauillac. I love the tactile caress of the tannins on the finish. Very pure and tapering as it takes to a long distant horizon. A great success in the vintage; this is heading back upwards in comparison to its peers."
, DrinksBusiness.com
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Carruades de Lafite has quite an understated bouquet that needs a little more encouragement than usual. Blackberry, pencil box and light estuarine scents gradually unfurl. Fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied, with sapid black fruit on the entry, gentle grip, wonderful balance and plenty of freshness and brightness on the finish. What a superb Carruades."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Carruades de Lafite is a total stunner. It's a great example of how Bordeaux has come along in the last few decades, in that it could have easily been a Grand Vin from another generation—maybe not from a great year, but from many years. Brisk acids and strong floral overtones immediately convey energy. Hints of lavender, rose petal, graphite and spice box are classic Lafite; all the Carruades lacks vis-à-vis its sibling is the classic Lafite mid-palate. This should blossom beautifully with time, and I would be in no rush to open it. What a delight."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"An incredibly elegant second wine (which is classic Lafite), the 2025 Carruades De Lafite has cassis, raspberries, crushed violets, graphite, and spicy wood on the nose. Based on 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot, it's medium-bodied on the palate, with a very pure, focused mouthfeel, polished tannins, and flawless balance. It checks in at 12.69% alcohol with a pH of 3.62."
Jeb Dunnuck, May 2026, JebDunnuck.com
"The energy in the glass in immediately in evidence, richly fragrant autumnal berry fruit, great lift through the palate, mouthwatering on the finish, good balance, chalky, slate-filled tannins, classic, balanced, slate and pumice stone, lots of cassis and bilberry fruit, harvest September 2 - 20. 3.8ph."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Upfront and instantly so welcoming and friendly and fun, bright, lively, full on acidity kicks off the expression – so lifted with the focus on the pure fruit. Salty undercurrent that gives such an incredible contrast to the ripe strawberry fruit. But this is also lacking no richness – it’s got muscles, power, concentration and such capacity to age. Fabulous. 2% Petit Verdot completes the blend."
, Decanter.com
"(Pauillac; 55% Cabernet Sauvignon; 34% Merlot; 9% Cabernet Franc; 2% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 27 hl/ha; 12.5% alcohol; tasted with Eric Kohler at Duhart-Milon). More relaxed and less dark-fruited than Duhart with neither the damsons nor the intensity of the dark briary fruits. There's more cherry and stone fruit, bramble and black berry accompanied by a lovely wild herbal note. Ample in frame, more so than Duhart, this really pushes into the cheeks but it's so soft that the impression is rather deceptive. There's impressive tension, the acidity super-well integrated across the length of the palate. The tannins are a little more present and granular on the finish, but they are very elegant and refined in the same breath. The acidity is beautifully integrated and the tannins infiltrate between the layers revealing, as they do so, the depth and profundity of this gorgeous Pauillac. I love the tactile caress of the tannins on the finish. Very pure and tapering as it takes to a long distant horizon. A great success in the vintage; this is heading back upwards in comparison to its peers."
, DrinksBusiness.com