Chateau Lafon-Rochet 4eme Grand Cru Classe, Saint Estephe 2015

54% Cabernet Sauvignon
35% Merlot
6% Cabernet Franc
4% Petit Verdot

Coming from the oldest wines of the vineyard, they bear less fruit, but offer greater complexity. Lafon-Rochet is a wine that is both simple and complex, it expresses aromas of black fruit in most vintages. There is truly a blend and features specific to Saint-Estèphe, a certain warmth and roundness, full of delicacy coming from Merlot’s grape variety.

Elegant, medium to full-bodied, beautifully pure and refined, it offers impressive notes of sweet dark fruits, crème de cassis, classy oak and a kiss of minerality. It’s the finesse and quality of tannin, as well as its solid mid-palate, that sets this beauty apart.

Wine Enthusiast – 95 points
James Suckling – 93 points
Robert Parker – 91 points