About the Wine
Lafite has released 300 limited edition cases containing a magnum of the 2018 vintage and the book, “The Almanac,” published in December which looks back at 150 vintages of Lafite, and presents each one with climatic and historic notes and archival material from each specific year. “We built this book to tell the story of Lafite since the Rothschild family has owned it, but also to share more stories about the life of a vintage,” the chairwoman says. “We hope readers will come out of reading it with a better understanding of how a wine grows, from the soil to the vine to the bottle.”
As a way to fête the 150th anniversary of the Rothschild family’s acquisition of Lafite, chairwoman Saskia de Rothschild imagined a symbol playing on Lafite’s historic and centenary label, which has two women in the foreground looking into the distance. The hot air balloon chosen to disrupt the label was sketched by Black Adder, a creative duo of illustrators. The initials CL, 150 in roman numerals, were also placed in red on the shoulder of the bottle. The limited edition case also contains a signed letter from Saskia de Rothschild.
An outstanding vintage such as this owes nearly all to its terroir. 2018 was typically a year where alcoholic degrees rose in the region but the clayey, gravel soil of the Lafite plateau showed their capacity to regulate, providing balanced ripening conditions.
Blend: Blend: 91% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8.5% Merlot and 0.5% Petit Verdot
P>*Please note that the price on Wine.com of this wine does not include any tariffs. As of October 2020, there remains a 25% tariff imposed on French wines below 14% Alcohol-by-Volume by the U.S. and approved by the World Trade Organization related to the Airbus/Boeing dispute. We are hopeful that this is a short-term tariff which will not be in place when the wine is ready to be imported into the U.S., as Bordeaux Futures typically ship 2 years after they are offered. Should tariffs still be in effect when the wine is ready to be imported, we will contact affected customers with an update to our plans and timing.
