Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte Grand Cru Classe Kosher 2022

Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte Grand Cru Classe Kosher 2022

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  • - France, Bordeaux, Pessac-Léognan
  • - 14.5% Alcohol
  • - Kosher for Passover
  • - 750 ML
  • - Non Mevushal
  • - Dry  
  • - Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot,
  •   Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot
  • - OU
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Château Smith Haut Lafitte Grand Cru Classé 2022 is a breathtaking Bordeaux that represents the pinnacle of prestige, power, and elegance in the kosher wine world. From one of Pessac-Léognan’s most revered estates, this exceptional vintage delivers profound layers of blackcurrant, ripe blackberry, and dark plum, intertwined with notes of graphite, cedar, tobacco, and refined spice. The palate is luxurious and impeccably structured, with remarkable concentration, silky yet commanding tannins, and vibrant acidity that drives an endlessly long, polished finish. The 2022 vintage stands as a truly iconic kosher release—deeply complex, beautifully balanced, and built for decades of aging—placing Smith Haut Lafitte firmly among the greatest kosher Bordeaux wines ever produced.

Tasting Notes

100 Points Jeb Dunnuck

Looking at the Grand Vin, the 2022 Château Smith Haut Lafitte checks in as a blend of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot that was raised in 60% new French oak. Reminding me of a more elegant version of the 2010, it has a dense purple hue to go with a rich, powerful, full-bodied, sensationally complex nose of cassis and darker berries interwoven with woodsmoke, scorched earth, chocolate, and chalky minerality. Concentrated, deep, and layered on the palate with ripe, velvety tannins, it's a sensational, absolutely heavenly effort that will keep for 40-50 years. Along with the 2009, 2010, and 2020, this is one of the greatest wines to ever come from this address.

97 Points James Suckling

A real success of the vintage that manages to deliver a bold, structured, concentrated and powerful wine with real terroir signature. You get the impression it’s from a warm vintage, but I love the fact you have texture, volume and weight but keeping the finesse. Fragranced black fruit and purple floral notes with soft medicinal herbal touches on the nose. Sleek and supple, tannins make the impression with juicy blackcurrants, black cherries and strawberries. Excellent tannin definition, they’re filling, massy and round, almost plush but accented by acidity and freshness. Strong signature, you know you're in gravel with Cabernet. Juicy, clean, pure, but with bite and intensity. I love the dark savoury notes too, the cough syrup, liquorice, clove, tobacco and cigar box elements, complex and captivating. 4% press. 3.65pH 30% whole bunch Petit Verdot in the blend. Potential upsore in bottle. 1% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 60% new oak barrels.

96 Points Robert Parker

With a somber, slightly introverted character characterized by notes of licorice, gentian, spices and dark wild berries, the 2022 Smith Haut Lafitte possesses a medium to full-bodied, concentrated and dense palate with a fleshy core of fruit and a generously extracted structure with an assertive tannic frame that requires time to mellow. Concluding with a long, dense and gentian-inflected finish, it needs time to digest its élevage and should gain harmony and balance with some time in the cellar.