2022 Château Lafon-Rochet Saint-Estèphe Grand Cru Classé

Château Lafon-Rochet was classified as one of the ten Quatrièmes Crus - Grand Cru Classé. The castle is owned by the Tesseron family, who also own the famous Château Pontet-Canet in Pauliac. The vineyards border the world-famous Châteaux Lafite-Rothschild and Duhart-Milon-Rothschild. The combination of this sublime location, heavy investments and a relentless pursuit of the highest quality, Château Lafon Rochet guarantees absolute class.

The first grapes for the Château Lafon-Rochet 2022 were picked on September 12th. This makes it one of the earliest harvests ever for Château Lafon-Rochet. The Merlots were the first to be harvested, the Cabernets followed between the 17th and the 27th of September. Finally, Château Lafon-Rochet did the Petit Verdots around September 20th. The 2022 is a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc. The entire harvest of Petit Verdot was used for the "Les Pelerins". The vinification of the Lafon-Rochet 2022 took more than 3 weeks, the wine finally came out with 14.5% alcohol.

FACT: Under the tab: Attachment you will find the official factsheet and we will send it to you digitally when you order this wine. Also worth mentioning that we buy the (Bordeaux) wines directly and never through intermediaries because then we do not know which journeys the wine has made and how it has been treated. The wines come from the cellars of the Chateau directly to our conditioned Warehouse in Dordrecht where all our wines are stored .