2025 Lafite Rothschild

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Pauillac; 94% Cabernet Sauvignon; 5% Merlot; 1% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 27 hl/ha; pH 3.70; 12.5% alcohol; tasted with Eric Kohler at Duhart-Milon). The extremely high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend should not deceive - it's actually around the average for the last 10 years. This is staggeringly beautiful, cool and haunting as I somehow knew it would be. It captures the essence of the vintage better than any other single wine. The attack is utterly sublime, just divine, with a touch of violet alongside the intense but soft, subtle and delicate dark berry fruits. There's plungepool clarity and freshness in its shimmering depth and great concentration at the core. A wine of breathtaking potential but also one that is brilliantly accessible. Long and gently tapering on the finish with the return of those hauntingly beautiful violet notes. Un Lafite absolu! A wine that breaks my scoring system; it couldn't be anything other than 100 Points.
100/100 Colin Hay

Without doubt, the 2025 vintage will stand as a defining highlight in the history of Château Lafite Rothschild. Here, power, elegance, purity, and restraint coexist within a single, harmonious space. The nose opens with blackcurrant and black goji berry, vivid and precise yet softly shrouded beneath a veil of agarwood-like smoke, shaping an aromatic landscape that feels both profound and dreamlike. What lingers most is its almost monochrome expression on the palate: tannins, dark as ink, lay down a deep, shadowed canvas, while the freshness of acidity and the clarity of fruit emerge like light breaking through. From this interplay of contrast alone, a richly layered and dimensional world unfolds, each sip drawing you deeper, until you are fully immersed.
99-100/100 Alexandre Ma

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Lafite Rothschild waltzes out of the glass with flamboyant notes of warm cassis, fresh black plums, and iris, giving way to nuances of star anise, fertile loam, and underbrush, with a touch of black truffles. The light-bodied palate offers an exhilarating texture of silky yet firm tannins—uniquely Lafite—plus incredible tension with a level of fruit and phenolic ripeness that is seemingly impossible at this low level of alcohol. The finish is long with lingering sparkles of mineral and floral notes. The blend is 94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot. 16% press wine was used. It has a pH of 3.65 and the alcohol is 12.4%.
98-100/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Deep plum in colour, not as inky as you might find in a vintage like 2O22. Gorgeous, sculpted, jumps out of the glass, showcasing the ability to remain Lafite through so many differing vintage conditions. A ton of depth and character, slate and rosebud, a sappy and highly drinkable Lafite. The last vintage in the old winery, next year will be in the new one (so more vats to do microvinification, and they expect to use Cabernet Franc again. 16% of press wine. Harvest started September 11, until September 20, even earlier than 2022. 27hl/h yields, very small for this estate, one of the smallest on record, but no doubt helped it resist the drought of the summer because these yields were small from the beginning. Eric Kohler winemaker, Eric Boissenot consultant.
97/100 Jane Anson