Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2002 6 Pack

95 POINTS

Wine Spectator

Bubbling over with crushed berries, currants and spices, with tobacco notes. Beautiful. Full-bodied, with gorgeously velvety tannins and a long finish of pretty fruit. This is a racy yet elegant Lafite. Classy. Best after 2010. 16,000 cases made.

94 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

What a pretty wine. A gorgeous burst of floral fragrance, met by raisined, beetrooty, graphite-shot black fruit. It’s expressive, it’s mouthwatering, it asserts its class right out of the glass. The palate then takes that and runs with it. Cedar, pencils, exquisite tannins. Length and purity, flashes of tomato-like leaf but in a context of classic ripeness. Long and structured, and impeccable.

93 POINTS

Jane Anson - Decanter Magazine

Another Indian summer vintage (with useful northerly winds) that followed a difficult July and August. This has still-tight tannins and remains deep in colour, with just the very beginnings of whispering its age. After a few minutes in the glass, cigar notes curl up and out, followed by beautifully elegant, savoury-edged black fruit and tea leaf notes. This was extremely austere at first, but it's now beginning to soften and is likely to develop similarly to the 1999, which makes it one to watch. Will reward further cellaring.