1986 Château Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux Unit of Measure:1 X 1.5L and ample acidity

and ample acidity

Wine Advocate (August 2022)

Patience is required but you will be rewarded with elegance

with a slightly chiselled minerality

it reflects that magnificent year and the quality of the Montagne de Reims’s Grand Cru vineyards

1986 Château Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux Unit of Measure:1 X 1.5L and ample acidityTasted at the chteau, the 1986 Lafite Rothschild continues to offer an exquisite bouquet at 30 years of age. This is beautifully defined, still full of energy, with copious blackberry, clove, leather and graphite aromas that seem to gain momentum in the glass. The palate is extremely well balanced with a crystalline quality, filigree tannin, perfectly pitched acidity, a quintessential Lafite Rothschild with a sense of energy and focus undiminished by