{"product_id":"carruades-de-lafite-1985","title":"Carruades de Lafite Pauillac 1985 AOC 0,75l","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarruades is the second wine of Château Lafite Rothschild, and it is worth being plain about what that means. Each year the estate selects the parcels and vats that will go into the grand vin; what does not make the cut, along with fruit from younger vines and from the Carruades plateau that gives the wine its name, is bottled under this label. It carries more Merlot than Lafite itself, which makes it rounder and quicker to come round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you are buying is genuine Lafite fruit, from Lafite land, made by the Lafite team, at a fraction of the grand vin's price. 1985 was a warm and generous year across the Médoc, and that softer style suited a second wine particularly well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not the great bottle, and nobody at the château would pretend otherwise. It is a real bottle of Pauillac from one specific year, with one of the most recognisable names in Bordeaux on the label.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carruades de Lafite\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVintage:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1985\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAppellation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pauillac AOC\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 75cl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bordeaux, France\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStyle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere it is likely to be now.\u003c\/strong\u003e Second wines mature faster than the grand vin, so a 1985 Carruades will be fully developed and may well be fading; it is bought for the year and the name, and drinkability at this age cannot be guaranteed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho it suits.\u003c\/strong\u003e Suits a forty-first birthday where the budget matters — a genuine Lafite-estate bottle from the right year, without the first-growth price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Graded good, which for a bottle of 1985 means an honest cellar-aged example with no damage worth reporting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bought to order from a professional European merchant. We check fill, label and capsule when the bottle reaches us and photograph it before it ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelivered in 7 to 10 working days, tracked. Transit cover can be added at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSold as a collectible item, as seen. No guarantee is given on drinkability.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!--anno-tpl-3--\u003e","brand":"Carruades de Lafite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58394789445976,"sku":"ANNO-023237","price":390.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6505\/6856\/files\/Carruades-de-Lafite-Pauillac-1985-AOC-075l.jpg?v=1790729603","url":"https:\/\/anno.wine\/de\/products\/carruades-de-lafite-1985","provider":"ANNO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}