Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte 2000

Professional Ratings

• 95 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  One can’t say enough about this winery, which may still fly under the radar of most consumers. The fully mature 2000 displays gorgeous aromas of camphor, lead pencil shavings, unsmoked tobacco, plums, and black currants. With full body, a velvety texture, and beautiful weight, richness, and length, this superb wine should evolve, possibly improve for another 15 years. It’s a beauty!
• 93 Wine Enthusiast
  The Cathiards have made a polished wine with generous fruit. It manages to combine a modern, rich style with a lightness of touch and freshness of fruit which make it instantly attractive.
• 93 Wine & Spirits
  No tasting note given.
• 90 Wine Spectator
  Showing a bit more maturity than some peers, this pushes singed cedar and smoldering alder flavors to the fore, along with well-mulled currant and fig fruit notes backed by a prominent tobacco edge on the finish. There?s a pretty sweetness of fruit here, even though this is fully into a secondary phase.?2000 Bordeaux blind retrospective (December 2015).
• 90 Decanter
  Deep red, mature rim, concentrated slightly 'gamey' fruit, good earthy ripeness, fleshy and smooth, ready now. Drink up to 2018.
• 90 James Suckling
  This wine begins with a delicious nose of plums, berries, and hints of toasted oak on the nose. On the palate it is full-bodied and round, with some good fruit and a soft finish with lots of chocolate. This is ready, pull the cork soon.