Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte - Pessac-Léognan White 2022 (750ml)
Price: $199.99
| Producer | Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 202485 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Wine Advocate: 95 Points
The 2022 Blanc from Smith Haut Lafitte is an impressive effort this year, evoking aromas of white fruits, pear, white peach, spices and spring flowers. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and layered, it's rich and concentrated with ripe acids enhanced by beautiful, chalky dry extracts, culminating in a long, saline and lovely oaky finish. This white wine always rewards patience and marries tension and charm to pleasing effect.
Vinous: 94 Points
The 2022 Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc-which Fabien Teitgen told me was not picked too early like other châteaux-has a very fine bouquet of mainly yellow fruit, Anjou pear and beeswax scents, as a fennel tincture gradually surfaces in the glass. The palate is well balanced with lemon curd, white peach and a hint of mango. It shows fine delineation and a little more tension than its peers, representing one of the best examples in a vintage that did not really favor dry whites.
