1999 Lafite Rothschild | FINE+RARE Wines

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0 Immediate | 10 Marketplace

£600.00

6x75cl

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£3,603.00

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£3,603.00

Scores + Notes

Average Score

Critic Notes

The 1999 Lafite Rothschild sports an engraved "1999" on the bottle along with an eclipse to mark that significant historical event of August, 1999. It is a quintessential offering from Lafite Rothschild. This prodigious wine is both elegant and intensely flavored, and almost diaphanous in its layers that unfold with no heaviness. An opaque ruby/purple color is accompanied by a complex bouquet of lead pencil, graphite, cedar, creme de cassis, toast, and vanilla. It is medium-bodied, with extravagant layers of richness yet little weight, and a finish that is all sweetness, ripeness, and harmony. This extraordinary Lafite increasingly appears to be a modern day clone of the majestic 1953. A mere one-third of the crop made it into the grand vin! Anticipated maturity: 2007-2030. Apr 2002, www.robertparker.com

Score: 95-/100Robert Parker

Transparent and lively. Fresh, appetising and already swallowable. So direct and frank! This is not one of Lafite's finest, most intense productions but it's well balanced and racy. Jancis Robinson, jancisrobinson.com

Score: 18-/20Jancis Robinson

Delivers wonderful dark chocolate, with raspberry and currant undertones. Full-bodied, featuring soft, silky tannins and a long finish. Very tight still. Needs time. Very layered and holding back.¿'89/'99 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2009). Best after 2012. 22,500 cases made. James Suckling, Wine Spectator 2010

Score: 94-/100Wine Spectator

Tasted at the 1999 horizontal at Bordeaux Index. This Lafite has a very upright, very “correct” bouquet with cedar, smoke, a touch of shoe-polish and just a faint hint of tangerine but remaining unresolved like the sample poured by Charles Chevalier at the property last year. The palate is full-bodied with firm tannins, lots of cedar and tobacco on the mid-palate. Good backbone, real depth here but lovely freshness and vibrancy towards the finish. A little foursquare perhaps, but this has a wonderful poise and sense of tension. This is a Lafite of good breeding for the vintage and I feel it will improve with age. Drink 2012-2030. Tasted June 2009. Neal Martin, eRobertParker.com

Score: 94-/100Neal Martin

About The Producer

The producer

Chateau Lafite Rothschild

Château Lafite Rothschild is one of the most famous wines in Bordeaux, if not the world. It has captured the attention and imagination of wine lovers everywhere for its finesse and elegant style. Being one of the three of the five First Growths situated in the Pauillac appellation, Château Lafite Rothschild sits at the far north of the appellation bordering Saint-Estèphe and the vineyards of Château Cos d’Estournel with Château Mouton Rothschild to its south. It is undoubtedly today’s most famous and collectable of the First Growths due to an avid following of collectors from all over the world. Its popularity in the Far East has only escalated its collectability. 

Chateau Lafite Rothschild Interview

From one of the most prestigious and world-renowned wine estates, Chateau Lafite Rothschild, we spoke with Technical Director Eric Kohler and Commercial Director Jean-Sebastien Philippe of Domaines Barons de Rothschild about Bordeaux’s continued relevance in an ever-expanding and competitive global fine wine market. We discuss the unique elements that define Chateau Lafite as well as their personal insight into the ...

BY Gavin Smith,

ON March 29, 2020

Château Lafite-Rothschild - Bottled Finesse

Last week we took a look at Mouton-Rothschild; this week we profile its fellow Bordeaux first growth, the iconic Château Lafite-Rothschild, one of the most famous estates in Bordeaux, if not the world. “The quintessential wine of elegance” Château Lafite-Rothschild is characterised by sophistication and finesse. Neal Martin of the Wine Advocate describes it as the “quintessential wine of elegance”, ...

ON October 19, 2015

2014: THE F+R PICKS. SMITH-HAUT-LAFITTE

They know what they’re doing at Smith-Haut-Lafitte. This is one of the few properties in Bordeaux that really engages with the end customer, and one that is particularly aware of the commercial realities of what they are making. The Cathiards, owners since 1990, have a clear ambition - to be the best - and they are well on this road. ...

ON April 28, 2015

A visit from Domaines Barons de Rothschild

This week we were honoured to host our long standing partner Domaines Barons de Rothschild's commercial director Jean-Sebastien Philippe for a very special tasting.... It is not every day that one has the opportunity to taste a line up of wines from all of DBR's Bordeaux properties; in fact even individual tastings rarely take place outside of Bordeaux, so we ...

ON July 25, 2019

Château Mouton-Rothschild – Bordeaux Wine Royalty

We profile the glamorous wild-child of Bordeaux wine-making in the first of our series of posts on iconic producers... Neighbour to fellow first-growth Lafite-Rothschild, Ch. Mouton-Rothschild is one of the icons of Bordeaux and one of three first growths to be found in Pauillac, home to the most regal and aristocratic of Bordeaux reds. For any collector of fine wine, it is often ...

ON October 12, 2015

Product Details

Country

France

Region

Bordeaux

Sub-region

Pauillac

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

Alcohol %

13%

Product Type

Still wine

Product Subtype

Drinking Window

Country

France

Region

Bordeaux

Sub-region

Pauillac

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

Alcohol %

13%

Product Type

Still wine

Product Subtype

Drinking Window

Average Score

Critic Notes

Score: 95-/100Robert Parker

Score: 18-/20Jancis Robinson

Score: 94-/100Wine Spectator

Score: 94-/100Neal Martin

The producer

Chateau Lafite Rothschild

Chateau Lafite Rothschild Interview

BY Gavin Smith,

ON March 29, 2020

Château Lafite-Rothschild - Bottled Finesse

ON October 19, 2015

2014: THE F+R PICKS. SMITH-HAUT-LAFITTE

ON April 28, 2015

A visit from Domaines Barons de Rothschild

ON July 25, 2019

Château Mouton-Rothschild – Bordeaux Wine Royalty

ON October 12, 2015

Country

France

Region

Bordeaux

Sub-region

Pauillac

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

Alcohol %

13%

Product Type

Still wine

Product Subtype

Drinking Window

Country

France

Region

Bordeaux

Sub-region

Pauillac

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

Alcohol %

13%

Product Type

Still wine

Product Subtype

Drinking Window