6 exceptional wines from Domaines Barons de Rothschild to celebrate the Lunar New Year
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, the Domaines Barons de Rothschild have exclusively unveiled an exceptional box set featuring some of the most important vintages from each of the family properties.
Based on a calendar of lunar cycles, whose origin dates back several centuries, the Lunar New Year is a major event celebrated in China and internationally by many communities.
Published in 888 numbered copies, this exceptional first edition pays tribute to the Garonne (river in Bordeaux) through six exceptional wines. The six wines making up this 1st Edition Lunar New Year box:/p>
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Château Lafite Rothschild 2008: straightforwardness and precision in an already legendary bottle with the Chinese sign of good luck "8" featured above its label
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Carruades de Lafite 2014: a wine of great delicacy
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Château L'Évangile 2013: expressive, delicate and velvety
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Château Duhart-Milon 2012: power and amplitude
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Château Rieussec 2009: power, joy, generosity, pleasure and liveliness
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R de Rieussec 2019: tension, freshness, balance and precision
All the bottles making up the 1st Edition of the Lunar New Year case are drinking very well currently. This high-end gift box is guaranteed to delight collectors and lovers of fine wines.
Château Lafite Rothschild 2008: "This blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc offers aromas of high quality unsmoked cigar tobacco, lead pencil shavings, creme de cassis, earth, cedar and asphalt. Full, rich and stunningly concentrated." Robert Parker 98pts
Château Duhart-Milon 2012: This marks an impressive step forward for this wine that's so often been in the shadows of other wines in the Lafite-Rothschild stable. It's dense and structured as well as deliciously fruity. The wine is straight down the line, starting with perfumed acidity and finishing with blackberry fruit. Intense and tannic, it's likely to age. Wine Enthusiast 94pts
Carruades de Lafite 2014: Lots of blackberries, dried mushrooms and minerals. Blackcurrants too with some tar. Full-bodied, chewy and rich with an intensity and liveliness on the finish. Salty and minerally. >/em> James Suckling 94pts
Château L'Évangile 2013: Elegant nose, complex and aromatic. It expresses notes of black fruits (blackcurrant, blackberry) associated with small floral notes as well as spicy notes (cocoa, and slight roasted notes). The mouth is full, fruity, elegant and provides accurate and pure notes of black fruits, cherry and slight notes strawberry with some sweet spices. The tannins are fine, a little dry but well integrated. VertdeVin 94-95pts
Château Rieussec 2009: Pale to medium gold colored, the 2009 Rieussec sings of crème caramel, chopped nuts, baked apples and spiced pears with hints of jasmine, peach blossoms and beeswax. Full-bodied, rich and decadently creamy in the mouth, the multilayered palate is beautifully lifted with fantastic freshness. It has a very long finish offering a lasting impression of great elegance and finesse. Simply stunning. Wine Advocate 98pts
