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Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Carruades De Lafite, 1967
🏰This 1967 Carruades de Lafite offers a 【rare glimpse into a classic Médoc vintage, showcasing finesse, aromatic complexity, and silky textures】 from Château Lafite Rothschild's historic second wine. Fully evolved, it presents tertiary notes of chestnuts, damp autumn leaves, cassis, blackberry, and dark raspberry, with integrated tannins providing a pleasing structure. The 1967 vintage in Médoc was known for its elegance and restraint.
🍴 This mature Bordeaux pairs beautifully with roast poultry or capon with a light jus, delicate veal or lamb dishes, mushroom-based creations, or truffle risottos. For cheeses, opt for refined, slightly aged bloomy or washed-rind varieties, or a classic aged Comté.
🥂 Ideal for an intimate dinner, a vertical tasting of Pauillac, or to celebrate a birth year. This bottle offers an experience of rarity and memory, appealing to connoisseurs who appreciate the subtlety and emotion of fully mature wines.
Kindly reminder: For wines of this age, expect potential fragility of the cork and capsule. Decant very carefully, just enough to remove any sediment, and serve at 18-20°C. Be prepared for potential bottle variation.
The grapes are harvested from vineyards on the Carruades plateau, adjacent to the Château Lafite flagship vineyards, sharing similar terroir.
The winery selects only one-third of its wine each year for the Lafite flagship, using the remainder for Carruades.
The Lafite flagship is aged in 100% new barrels, which are then used for Carruades the following year.
In the early 20th century, Carruades de Lafite Rothschild became a bestseller after export, gaining more fame than the Lafite flagship. Some sommeliers promoted Carruades de Lafite as a special wine above the Lafite flagship. To correct this unintentional error, the winery renamed Carruades de Lafite to Moulin des Carruades until the 1980s, when they decided to revert to Carruades de Lafite Rothschild...
The 1974 Château Lafite mentioned in an article published in the February 13, 1978 issue of New York Magazine... Rothschild's second label is called Moulin des Carruades.
BACKGROUND
Chateau Lafite Rothschild is a legendary First Growth estate in Pauillac. Carruades de Lafite is its highly sought-after second wine.