2016 Barons de Rothschild Pauillac Reserve Speciale
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Tasting Notes
This 2016 Réserve Spéciale Pauillac is a Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot blend that combines wines from their properties in the Pauillac appellation. Created in a similar style to the Châteaux wines, this has all the elegance and finesse you associate with the Lafite Rothschild name. It offers a particularly fresh and timeless Pauillac profile and, coming from the fantastic 2016 vintage, it is ready for immediate drinking thanks to its soft, silky tannins - yet also shows the potential to evolve beautifully for several more years.The 2016 vintage has been praised for producing wines with great subtlety and complexity. A classic vintage that reminds James Suckling of "the great wines of the 1980s" but with "much more precision and clarity due to advances in viticulture and winemaking since then".
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About the producer
Domaines Barons de Rothschild is the overarching group of estates owned by the Rothschild family of Ch. Lafite Rothschild.