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Château Smith Haut Lafitte

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Petit Verdot
Tracked vintages
38
Community notes
31
Merchant offers
200

What we know about this wine

Critics
96/ 1002025 vintage
Real drinkers
90/ 10031 notes, every vintage
Market price
£63per 75 cl2024 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
Drinking window
2026–2055drinking2024 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.

Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet. Style: Pessac-Léognan red.

Body4.0 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin4.0 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.0 / 5
DrySweet
  • Earth · graphite, smoke
  • Oak · cedar, dark chocolate
  • Black fruit · black cherry, cassis

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.

Realised in-bond trades£43–£173GBP per 75 cl · 21 priced vintages

2002One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2024

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Every score below is a critic score.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside its stated window
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2019
98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2019
drinking, window 2025–2058
Lowest price
2003
£43 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Smith Haut Lafitte monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£50£100£1502024£632023£912022£722021£562019£672018£872017£472016£762015£872014£542013£552012£662011£772010£1112009£1732008£782007£672006£532005£972003£432002£63

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Smith Haut Lafitte monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 1 vintage is priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for it
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Smith Haut Lafitte monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2024£6393.8Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
2023£9196.4Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2024
2022£7297.4Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2021£5693.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2019£6797.7Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2018£8796.9Yesper 75cl, from a 6000 ml in-bond trade, August 2024
2017£4795.9Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
2016£7697.2Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2015£8796.2Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2014£5492.7Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2013£5589.2Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2012£6694Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2011£7792.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024
2010£11195.2Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
2009£17396.4Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2008£7891.4Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2018
2007£6790.8Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
2006£5391.8Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017
2005£9795.4Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2003£4392Noper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, June 2015
2002£6390.3Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2018

Where to go next

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