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White wine dry
Chateau Smith Haut Lafite is soil is clay and limestone; slightly cooler temperatures for the white wine grapes. The grapes for this wine are pressed with a pneumatic press cushion. There is no contact with the peels during fermentation and no malolactic fermentation. The wine is then aged for 12 months in French oak barrels, of which at least 50% is for first use.The white Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte has a bright and powerful aroma and smells of peaches, grapefruit, lemon, peaches and pineapples, accompanied by notes of vanilla and sweet spices. In the mouth - a complex taste, quite weighty, extremely long aftertaste of stone fruit and candied citrus.
Serve at 10-12 °C with poultry or veal dishes seasoned with peas or asparagus with creamy cream sauce. The wine will go well with lightly grilled fish or salmon carpaccio.
Château Smith Haut Lafitte is currently one of Pessac-Léognan’s most successful wineries. Despite a long history of 800 years, this farm was not famous for its extremely high quality wine, but that changed when it was purchased in 1990 by Daniel and Florence Cathiard. Former ski champions and sports shop owners have relentlessly begun to renovate and modernize the winery, which now boasts a multi-stage grape picking system (grapes are selected both by hand and with an optical sorter), an in-house ripening workshop and a state-of-the-art winery. Fermentation of the wine takes place in 30 different fermentation tanks. In the vineyards, work is also carried out to achieve the highest quality - the harvest is hand-picked only and the grapes are grown and cared for in accordance with the principles of ecology and biodynamic viticulture. All these investments did not go in vain - since 2000, the quality of both white and red wine wines has started to improve incredibly.
