Вино Шато Лафит 1864 (Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1864)

92 Points Robert Parker
“Except for the 1966 and 1870 vintages of Lafite-Rothschild, these wines were poured on virgin territory on my palate. The other great classics from the last century were remarkable wines, all with original corks, and in extraordinary condition.
Their age was authenticated by Michael Broadbent, who is the only person in the world to have the good fortune to have tasted these wines on several occasions.

The amber/ruby-coloured 1864 Lafite-Rothschild possessed a Mouton-like nose of cedar and cassis, accompanied by surprising intensity and ripeness. In the mouth, the wine revealed remarkable freshness, sweet fruit, surprisingly high alcohol, and wonderful, exotic, Asian spice, tobacco, and Graves-like flavours.

There was surprising power and intensity in the finish of this totally delicious, compelling wine!”

5* Michael Broadbent
Ch Lafite; I have been privileged to taste, to drink, this wine - reputedly the finest wine of the vintage and the greatest Lafite of the century - on seven occasions.

Whether Queen Victoria, a regular sherry and claret drinker, was filly aware of its stellar quality, I do not know, but it was certainly in the royal cellars and being consumed in the mid-1870s.

First noted in 1976: a superb Cockburn and Campbell magnum. The second, and most memorable, a jeroboam from the cellars of Mrs James de Rothschild which, in an American cellar, had suffered cork failure. A perfect bottle from the château, recorked, at the Overton tasting in 1979; again in 1987, and another, recorked by the maitre de thai in 1986. at Flatt’s Lafite tasting in 1988. All superb. Next, an almost too sweet bottle, labelled ‘Lafite lion (Baron) de Rothschild, R. Cabs’ at a Rodenstock tasting in 1995, and, very recently, perfection, complete, harmonious.Last tasted at Wilfred Jaeger’s June 2001