Winemaker Notes
Carruades de Lafite has a floral bouquet. Notes of ripe fruit, blackcurrants, cedar, and spices. A dense, rich wine with very refined, well-integrated tannins...
A Sauternes made of 80 to 90% Sémillon – 10 to 20% Sauvignon and Muscadelle. The second wine of this vaunted property, similarly high production standards are applied to this oak-aged wine...
About the winery
Château Lafite Rothschild is a wine estate in France, owned by members of the Rothschild family since the 19th century. The name Lafite comes from the surname of the La Fite family.
Lafite was one of four wine-producing châteaux of Bordeaux originally awarded First Growth status in the 1855 Classification, which was based on the prices and wine quality at that time. Since then, it has been a consistent producer of one of the world’s most expensive red wines