2010 Château Lafite Rothschild Pauillac

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2010 Château Lafite Rothschild Pauillac style=

One of Lafite’s Greatest Ever

Pauillac 750 ml

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100 pts

Wine Advocate

100 pts

Wine Enthusiast

Cabernet Sauvignon | 2010 | Pauillac | France

Cabernet Sauvignon

87%

Merlot

13%

13

Decant for 1 hour

60°

Now - 2079

Pantheon-Level Lafite Rothschild

Château Lafite Rothschild is a bucket-list wine in any vintage. That makes the triple-100-point 2010—undoubtedly one of the greatest wines ever produced by the First Growth estate—the kind of bottle that will anchor your collection for decades. We’re thrilled to offer 36 pristine bottles, aged at the château and delivered to you with perfect provenance guaranteed.

This is the height of Bordeaux, and one of the world’s greatest collector wines. Showing Pauillac in full flush, the 2010 boasts a monumental combination of powerful dark fruit, endless complexity, and a structure that will allow it to age for generations. It’s easy to see why the ‘10 is one of only two Lafite bottles ever to earn three 100-point scores—it has everything anyone could want in a great bottle of Bordeaux.

Decanter says the 2010 Lafite “epitomises why the vintage is so good,” and a decade into its life, this bottle is just starting to show its potential. It’s got the seamless architecture to go 50 years, but with a long decant, it will deliver spectacularly in the short term. Of course, the dream scenario would be to witness the evolution of this world-class bottle, decade by decade.

Lafite is known for combining Pauillac’s innate power with an aristocratic elegance, and this wine thrills on both a visceral and an intellectual level. Aromas of cassis, graphite, macerated black cherries, white flowers, Tahitian vanilla, cocoa, and cigar box swirl in the glass, reaching parts of our brains that we forgot wine could touch. On the palate, there’s no extra fat, but plenty of power, along with endlessly fascinating layers of flavor. It’s the Platonic form of Left Bank Bordeaux, with a long, long life ahead of it.

Lafite has been one of the iconic wines of France since Louis XV and Thomas Jefferson both sang its praises in the 1700s, and remains one of the most collectible wines in the world. That status means the winery can afford to reinvest in quality like few others, from intensive vineyard management all the way to the cellar.

Lafite has their own cooperage, a rare luxury that allows them to tailor each barrel to its specific vineyard block. Combine that with various sizes of wood, stainless steel, and concrete fermentation tanks and you have a recipe for nearly unmatched precision in the vinification and aging of their wines.

2010 was characterized by a dry summer and fall, which allowed for perfect ripening of small, concentrated berries. Wine Spectator thinks it’s the best ever in the Left Bank, awarding the vintage a 99-point score, and Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate has it tied with 1990 and 1982—two of Bordeaux’s all-time-great years.

So when Decanter says that the 2010 Lafite “epitomises why the vintage is so good,” it’s exceptionally high praise. This is a wine that will be revered by generations to come—with the demand to match.

Deep ruby in color with just a touch of bricking to the rim. Tightly wound at first, it opens with a little air to reveal enchanting aromas of black currant, black cherry, crushed violet, graphite, cigar box, fresh herbs, and cocoa powder. Densely packed but not fat, its wiry frame and grainy tannins ripple with energy. Flavors wash over the palate in subtle layers, starting with black fruit and moving toward savory tobacco, earth, and sweet spices. Seamless, ultra-long, and mineral-tinged, the finish is incredible. Beginning to show its potential, its full brilliance remains untapped, awaiting decades of cellaring to fully unlock. Drink now - 2079.

100 pts

Wine Advocate

“Deep garnet in color, the 2010 Lafite Rothschild is a little mute on the nose at this stage, opening to reveal warm blackcurrants, baked plums and boysenberry scents with hints of chocolate mint, violets, cedar chest and pencil lead. Full-bodied, rich and densely packed with perfumed black fruit layers, it has a rock-solid backbone of fantastically ripe, grainy tannins and beautiful freshness, finishing very long and minerally. Still very youthful!”

100 pts

Wine Enthusiast

“Almost black in color, this stunning wine is gorgeous, rich and dense. It's grand and powerful, with a strong sense of its own importance. The beautiful tannins and the fragrant black currant fruits are palpable. It's a great wine, with huge potential.”

100 pts

Decanter

“Inky colour, more so than in many years of Lafite, imprinted by the vintage. It is at this level, in these type of years, where you see why these terroirs have stood out for centuries. We are in a crowded field of excellence in Pauillac in 2010, and yet still the First Growths manage to deliver an extra heartbeat of brilliance. This is still extremely closed, and I have no hesitation in saying that when Lafite is planning its 250th anniversary celebrations that this will be one of the wines that it chooses, just as we all marvelled at the 1893 in the summer of 2018. Blocks of liquorice and black chocolate come through alongside the tannins, standing guard to ensure the fruits don't escape before they are ready to do so. There are vintages where Lafite is sculpted, liquid elegance (like 2017, speaking of one I have recently tasted), and where it stands out against the vintage, and then there are other years when it epitomises why the vintage is so good, and that is where we are here. It has less obvious muscles than the Latour but every bit of the strength.”

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2010 Château Lafite Rothschild Pauillac

One of Lafite’s Greatest Ever

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Château Lafite Rothschild

Pauillac 750 ml

Fruit Intensity

Oak Intensity

Body

Acidity

Tannin

Cabernet Sauvignon

87%

Merlot

13%

13

Decant for 1 hour

60°

Now - 2079

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Cabernet Sauvignon

87%

Merlot

13%

13

Decant for 1 hour

60°

Now - 2079

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