Name: Château Lafite Rothschild
Brand: Château Lafite Rothschild

What we know about this wine

Critics: 98/ 1002025 vintage
Real drinkers: 94/ 1004,530 notes, every vintage
Market price: £366per 75 cl2025 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
Drinking window: 2029–2064hold2024 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 1,636 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Bordeaux Pauillac.

Body4.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.1 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin4.1 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.7 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · tobacco, cedar, oak, vanilla, chocolate
Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, graphite, mushroom
Black fruit · cassis, blackcurrant, blackberry, black fruit, plum
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red cherry
Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, cinnamon, eucalyptus
Floral · violet, perfume, lavender, dried flowers, potpourri

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

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

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.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Holdits window has not opened
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2016; 99 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2016; drinking, window From 2022
Lowest price: 1954; £167 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.

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Château Lafite Rothschild 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. 35 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

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Château Lafite Rothschild monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2025	£366	97.8	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2024	£280	94.8	No	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2023	£431	97.6	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2022	£428	99	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2021	£343	96.1	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2020	£358	98.5	—	per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, February 2026
2019	£398	98.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2018	£455	98.8	—	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, June 2026
2017	£402	96.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, October 2025
2016	£490	99.2	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2015	£436	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, February 2026
2014	£375	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
2013	£511	92.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
2012	£365	93.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2011	£577	93.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2022
2010	£551	98.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2009	£548	98.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2008	£492	94.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
2007	£425	93.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6000 ml in-bond trade, July 2026
2006	£560	93.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2005	£574	98.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2004	£383	94.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2003	£513	96.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2002	£380	93	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2001	£615	93.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
2000	£1,050	98.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, September 2024
1999	£557	93.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 5-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020
1998	£514	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
1997	£638	90	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
1996	£912	97.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
1995	£795	95.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024
1994	£859	91.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
1993	£352	88	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
1992	£376	89	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2017
1991	£514	86	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
1990	£639	95.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
1989	£539	93	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022
1988	£636	94.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
1987	£603	87	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1986	£1,005	97.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
1985	£567	91.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
1984	£458	84	—	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2020
1983	£530	94.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
1982	£1,736	96.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
1981	£283	91	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
1980	£503	83	—	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, December 2020
1979	£422	89.5	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2016
1978	£430	90.5	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
1977	£444	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
1976	£475	92.3	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
1975	£410	92	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
1974	£388	—	—	per 75cl, from a 4-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022
1973	£413	72	—	per 75cl, from a 5-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
1972	£299	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
1971	£510	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1970	£485	90	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021
1969	£1,112	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
1968	£853	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
1967	£486	72	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
1966	£1,318	84	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1965	£941	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
1964	£882	80	No	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, July 2021
1963	£1,852	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
1962	£792	88	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2020
1961	£1,056	92.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, July 2019
1960	£693	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
1956	£579	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2020
1954	£167	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
1953	£1,929	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
1952	£1,899	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1950	£731	92	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2021
1945	£2,747	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2021
1934	£1,461	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1929	£2,172	59	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2020
1912	£3,835	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026

Château Lafite Rothschild

What we know about this wine

Flavour and structure

Vintages

Price by vintage

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