Wine:

Resplendent, the 2010 Red Pessac-Léognan Château Smith Haut-Lafitte combines generosity, power and elegance with perfect balance. Great intensity of flavors such as fruit, fine spices, fresh leather, and cedar are combined in a slender and long palate, with a beautiful tension and freshness. One of the great references of an unforgettable vintage.

Vinification:

Hand harvested. Vinification of whole berries in small wooden vats at 28°C, extraction by manual punching down. Aged on lees for 18 months in French oak barrels, 65% of which are new, made in their integrated cooperage.

Color:

Dense red, deep almost black.

Nose:

Aromas of black fruits mixed with notes of fine spices, fresh leather and touches of cedar

Palate:

Slender, long and persistent, this wine brilliantly combines generosity, power, precision and depth

Temperature:

Serve between 16 and 18°C.

Food and wine pairing:

Entrecote grilled bordelaise style, seven-hour lamb shoulder, roast duck with foie gras, risotto with woodland mousserons and its full-bodied brown juice, matured farmhouse Saint Nectaire.

Cellar aging:

From now until 2040 and more for enthusiasts

Château Smith Haut Lafitte is the star of Pessac-Léognan, an estate that shines by its rigor and unfailing regularity. Everything here is designed to combine modernity with excellence: the integrated cooperage, the biodynamic agriculture, the precise selection, and blending …there is not a single false note. 

The 2010 vintage has been crowned one of the "vintages of the century" and is a cult year of the 2010 decade because it is destined for great aging. Evidence of this is the fact that it has been rated 98/100 by Parker. It is impossible to resist having a few bottles in your cellar ...