2024 Le Petit Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc
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Tasting Notes
Le Petit is Grand in 2024, un grand vin de table! Granny Smith apple! Iodine, oyster shell, linden, lime and assorted fresh and confit citrus notes. A touch of confit lemon too. Really ample and pushing at the cheeks, like it’s bigger sibling. Lovely sapidity with little plumes of fresh citrus descending like tears down the side of the wine glass.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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The 2024 Le Petit Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc is outrageously beautiful. It captures all the stylishness and personality of the Grand Vin, but at a far more accessible price. Lemon confit, marzipan, white pepper, chamomile and tangerine peel all come alive in the glass. Floral notes lift the airy, expressive finish. Wonderful.
A little more structured, serious, tension, grip, still very juicy, great quality, pale green apple and white peach, anis. 30% new oak, harvest August 29 to September 13,
The 2024 Le Petit Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc includes 20% Sémillon and has an open, expressive bouquet with a slight Riesling bent. Nothing wrong with that. The palate is well balanced with a straightforward entry, where a bit more Sémillon expression would be welcome. Fresh and quite spicy towards the finish. This will drink well over the next decade.
About the producer
Ch. Smith Haut Lafitte is one of the leading lights of Pessac-Léognan today – all thanks to Daniel and Florence Cathiard, who took over the property in 1990 and have since transformed the estate, converting to biodynamics and crafting wines of increasing finesse.