Chateau Lafite Rothschild Carruades de Lafite 2022

✦ The Landscape & Terroir
Bordeaux is a landscape of rivers, gravel, clay and restrained maritime light. The Gironde and its tributaries moderate the climate, while the soils shape the wine’s structure and longevity. In Pauillac, Bordeaux, France, deep gravel soils over limestone and clay give the wine its frame, depth and sense of place.

✦ The Wine & Varieties
2022 Chateau Lafite Rothschild 'Carruades de Lafite' is made from Cabernet Sauvignon-led Bordeaux blend. For Hong Kong collectors new to European fine wine, this is a way to understand place through structure: fruit gives pleasure, but terroir gives the wine its shape and memory.

✦ Winemaking Philosophy
The wine reflects historic First Growth estate viticulture. The cellar work is not about making the loudest wine, but about preserving proportion, texture and the identity of the vineyard. Ageing: French oak ageing with long cellar potential.

✦ Taste Profile
Expect dark fruit, refined tannins, cedar spice and a long structured finish that opens slowly in the glass. It is a wine to serve with care, open with time and enjoy as it moves from fruit toward detail.

✦ Why It Matters
2022 Chateau Lafite Rothschild 'Carruades de Lafite' matters because it carries one of Bordeaux’s most graceful expressions of power. It belongs in a cellar not only as a luxury bottle, but as a reference point for how origin, vintage and human judgement can meet in one glass.

✦ Key Facts
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon-led Bordeaux blend
Region: Pauillac, Bordeaux, France
Soil: deep gravel soils over limestone and clay
Farming method: historic First Growth estate viticulture
Ageing: French oak ageing with long cellar potential
Serving temperature: 16–18°C
Ageing potential: 25–50+ years