The Château Lafitte of Côtes de Bordeaux of Bordeaux

Château Lafitte
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 3 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Côtes de Bordeaux in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Lafitte is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Côtes de Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Lafitte wines

Looking for the best Château Lafitte wines in Côtes de Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Lafitte wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Château Lafitte wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Lafitte

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Lafitte

How Château Lafitte wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef casserole, calf sweetbread with mushrooms or rabbit and mushroom gibelotte.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Lafitte

On the nose the red wine of Château Lafitte. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, dark fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, spices or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Lafitte. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Lafitte

  • 2002With an average score of 4.55/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2000With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 1999With an average score of 4.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Lafitte.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Côtes de Bordeaux

The Côtes de Bordeaux appellation was created in 2009 to merge four existing appellations used in the Bordeaux region of France. These four appellations are The Premières Côtes de Blaye, Côtes de Castillon, Côtes de Francs and the red wines of the Cadillac region. The latter were previously under the appellation Premières Côtes de Bordeaux. The changes were a commercially motivated decision, intended to create unity between these important but lesser known appellations.

They were intended to simplify the Structure of the Côtes de Bordeaux appellation. However, the New banner of the four appellations is not entirely original or easily differentiated from the Old one. It can be said that it has added further complexity to the Bordeaux appellations. This is underlined by the fact that the four components of the appellations are geographically extensive.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Lafitte

Planning a wine route in the of Côtes de Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Lafitte.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Château Lafitte and wines from the region

Drought and heat drive early wine harvests in Europe

Severe drought and heatwaves have provided challenges for wine producers across Europe in 2022, from maintaining vine health to concerns about – and the impact of – wildfires. Early harvests have been a feature of the vintage and reports emerged this week of records being broken at some white wine-producing estates in Bordeaux. Spain’s Caserío de Dueñas estate in DO Rueda said it began a record early harvest on 16 August this year. While drought and heat have put pressure on yields in some regio ...

Brad Pitt launches skincare range using ingredients from Rhône Valley vineyard

Le Domaine Skincare features a serum, a cream, a fluid cream and a cleansing emulsion, all of which are vegan and suitable for all skin types. The products are made from organic matter that was previously discarded after the grapes had been pressed. Le Domaine Skincare’s packaging also includes recyclable glass bottles and jars, and reusable stoppers made of oak cut from the scraps of the vineyard’s wine barrels. ‘It is about imitating nature’s organic cycles, its original beauty,’ said Pitt, wh ...

Decanter’s Regional Editors pick out their top wines for Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

In the first part of this series, see the wines that the Decanter editorial team is most excited about tasting at the Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC on Saturday 18th June 2022. Amy Wislocki – Decanter Magazine Editor Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2019 At the end of every year at Decanter, we organise a ‘Wines of the Year‘ tasting. We ask our key contributors and editorial staff to pick out the wines that most impressed them during the year just gon ...

The word of the wine: Millerandage

Poor fertilization of some grapes at the time of flowering in cold or rainy weather. Milled grapes do not grow and usually do not contain seeds.