Did You Miss One of Our Great Offers From This Week? 
Brunello Di Montacino Collection 
Legendary Labels - Single Bottle Selection 
Michel Gaunoux Library Releases 
Immediate Delivery 
Lowest Price 
Guaranteed Stock
Wine Guaranteed
Wine is in its original packaging and in good condition, meaning levels to base neck or better.
- Capsules original and undamaged.
- Labels clean and undamaged.
- Not re-imported or carrying strip labels from Asia, USA or non-European regions as well as merchant labels.
This item is being kept at a professional bonded warehouse. No duty or VAT tax has been paid on this item and none will be if you decide to keep or transfer it to another bonded warehouse.
Taxes will only be paid once the item leaves a bonded facility. For example, for home delivery.
VAT & Duty PaidThis item is being kept in professional storage but VAT & Duty has already been paid which is not refundable. If you want home delivery for this item to the same country in which the taxes have been paid, you will not be required to pay further tax on this item.
Taxes may need to be paid in addition if you are transferring it to another country for local home delivery where tax has not already been paid.
This is a beautiful Carraudes with currant, sweet-tobacco and wet-earth aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied with a dense center-palate and tight, polished tannins. Fresh, with tension. Reminds me of the 1995 Lafite. This is so Lafite in character. It shows so much cabernet sauvignon character. It’s 68% cabernet sauvignon, 27% merlot and the rest cabernet franc. Try after 2026.
Reviewer Name: James Suckling
Review Date: 20th February 2022
The second wine of the estate, the 2019 Carruades De Lafite offers a beautiful, Lafite-like bouquet of crème de cassis, cedar pencil, tobacco, and new leather. Gorgeously complex, medium to full-bodied, with silky tannins, and a great finish, it's a brilliant wine that would certainly do just fine in a blind lineup of Lafite. The blend is 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, and 5% Cabernet Franc.
Reviewer Name: Jeb Dunnuck
Review Date: 11th June 2020
Ripe nose, so fresh and alive with beautiful cherry perfumed aromas too. This has a lovely, almost sweet, aspect to the fruit on the palate with high acidity making you salivate. High toned blackcurrants and red cherries are supported by soft tannins and gentle licks of liquorice and coffee. A wine you just want to drink now as it's so appealing with freshness and lift but it has the sides of spice that give it structure and make you realise it's still powerful and will age so well. The finish is cool and lifted. Poise and persistence - a tantalising Carruades.
Drinking Window: 2027 - 2044
Reviewer Name: Georgina Hindle
Review Date: 5th January 2022
68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc. Barrel sample.
More Cabernet and less Merlot than usual, and it shows. Bright and fresh, even tangy on the palate, with very fine tannins, the fruit breezy and gourmand. Touch of mint to the dense, dark fruit. Super length. Lots of charm. (JL)
Drinking Window: 2026 - 2040
Reviewer Name: James Lawther MW
Review Date: 8th June 2020
The 2019 Carruades de Lafite is sexy, open knit and wonderfully inviting, with all of the seductiveness of the vintage on display. Ripe red cherry, red plum, rose petal, mint and spice are lifted by the savory intensity of the Cabernets, which at 73% are the highest ever for Carruades.
Technical Director Eric Kohler describes 2019 as an easier vintage than 2018, a year that saw quite a bit of disease pressure and extremes of temperature. Kohler added that while 2019 was hot, it was consistently hot, and therefore the vines adapted to the conditions as opposed to being shocked by sudden changes. Yields were a very classic 36-40 hectoliters per hectare, depending on the property. Cuvaison was about three weeks, with gentle extractions. As always one of the signatures at Lafite is the use of a portion of press lots in the final blends.
Reviewer Name: Antonio Galloni
Review Date: 1st June 2020
The 2019 Carruades de Lafite is a blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc, harvested from the 19th of September to the 7th of October. Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, it comes skipping out of the glass with bright, fresh notions of wild blueberries, ripe plums and redcurrant jelly plus hints of cinnamon stick, cumin seed, oolong tea and violets with a waft of black olives. Medium-bodied, the palate delivers loads of rich, ripe, spicy flavors with a soft texture of nicely rounded tannins and with the freshness in the background, finishing on a lingering allspice note. In a word: Yum!
Reviewer Name: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Review Date: 5th June 2020
The 2019 Carruades de Lafite, which has the lowest proportion of Merlot in the blend to date, has a pretty, pure, mineral-driven bouquet of shimmering red fruit, crushed strawberry and cranberry. Touches of pressed iris flower emerge with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent ripe tannins and fine tension, maybe not quite as luxuriant as it was out of barrel, but it has gained more tension and precision on the finish. Graphite lingers on the aftertaste. Excellent.
Drinking Window: 2025 - 2045
Reviewer Name: Neal Martin
Review Date: 1st February 2022
