Chateau Lafon Rochet Saint-Estephe 2020 CS20231031 Bold enough to stand alone

Bold enough to stand alone

A cerebral wine that even in its youth shows brilliance

Planted to Chardonnay on limestone

La Gravette is the second wine of Vieux Château Certan

this is now approaching its prime drinking window: the granite-like structure that defined it in youth has begun to soften into something more nuanced

Chateau Lafon Rochet Saint-Estephe 2020 CS20231031 Bold enough to stand aloneThe yellow chateau of Saint Estephe, Lafon Rochet is a Fourth Growth that has been quietly producing some of the appellation's most reliable wines for decades. The 2020 was crafted under the long stewardship of the Tesseron family, just before the estate transitioned to the Lorenzetti family in 2021. It's a ripe, modern Saint Estephe in a warm, generous vintage plenty of dark Cabernet fruit, freshened by the appellation's signature mineral grip. Built