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2020 Château Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux

  • White
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Sauvignon Blanc (90%),Sauvignon Gris (5%),Sémillon (5%)
For laying down
Product: 20208122816
2020 Château Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux

Description

Sauvignon Blanc 90%, Sémillon 5%, Sauvignon Gris 5%

This is beautifully expressive. It’s somehow loose-limbed and open-textured; unctuous, heady and creamy; and zesty. It’s focused on lime flower and warmer notes of ripe peach and apricot. These components reflect the options open to the château in its picking regime: some plots give tension, others body and power. The wine’s very expressive character can likely be attribute to the estate’s organic and biodynamic policies, for which they have been pioneers in the region.

Drink 2023-2032

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Sauvignon Blanc (90%),Sauvignon Gris (5%),Sémillon (5%)
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Château Smith Haut Lafitte

About this wine

Sauvignon Blanc

An important white grape in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley that has now found fame in New Zealand and now Chile. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux and is blended with Sémillon to produce fresh, dry, crisp  Bordeaux Blancs, as well as more prestigious Cru Classé White Graves. It is also blended with Sémillon, though in lower proportions, to produce the great sweet wines of Sauternes. It performs well in the Loire Valley and particularly on the well-drained chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, where it produces bone dry, highly aromatic, racy wines, with grassy and sometimes smoky, gunflint-like nuances.
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Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte

Château Smith-Haut-Lafite has been transformed during the last decade from being a perennial underachiever to being one of the leading estates in the Graves region.
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