Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 2019

James Suckling has been doing Zoom tastings of Bordeaux 2019. One of the best tastings was with Eric Kohler, Technical Director
at Lafite. Kohler describes the 2019 as a ‘great-classic’ and has drawn comparisons with the quality and style of the 2010 vintage.
A sentiment clearly echoed by Suckling, who rated it 99-100pts and describes the 2019 as ‘stunning’.
Unlike one of its noisy neighbours, Lafite are great believers in the EP system and across the last 20 years, the only big disappointments since release have been the 2009 and 2010 vintages. Aside from those, 14 out of the last 17 vintages have performed well. In comparable years to 2019, performance has been the best within its peer group, ranging from 7-69%.