Pauillac · vintage 2010
Château Lafite Rothschild 2010
Ageing potential20+ years
Why this vintage
- 100/100 from Wine Advocateand 4 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2010 vintage in PauillacA dry summer and cool nights concentrated small berries: a benchmark vintage, with dense tannins and a thirty-year aging potential.
- Ageing potential20+ years
Critic scores
- Wine Advocate100
- James Suckling100
- Wine Enthusiast100
- Vinous96
- Decanter93
The 2010 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 99/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A dry summer and cool nights concentrated small berries: a benchmark vintage, with dense tannins and a thirty-year aging potential.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pauillac. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
Beautiful concentrated color. A solid and dense wine on the palate, it has a beautiful structure and well-pronounced tannins. Long and persistent wine with notes of violet on the finish. The 2010 is an elegant wine with good balance.
Blend of the 2010 vintage
- 84 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 16 % Merlot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2010 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2010 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 50 hl/haYield
- 40 yrsVine age
- 200,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Fermentation takes place in two vat rooms: the traditional vat room, fitted with large oak vats, and the modern vat room, fitted with stainless steel vats. Blending is carried out when the barrels are first racked in March.
Ageing
The wine then begins its ageing and maturation in the cellar, a stage lasting 18 to 20 months.
Terroir
The vineyard comprises three main areas: the slopes around the Château, the Carruades plateau adjoining it to the west, and a 4.5 ha parcel in the neighbouring commune of Saint Estèphe. The vineyard covers 112 ha of fine, deep gravel soils mixed with aeolian sands over a Tertiary limestone subsoil, well drained and well exposed. The grape varieties are Cabernet Sauvignon (70%), Merlot (25%), Cabernet Franc (3%) and Petit Verdot (2%). The average age of the vines is 38 years overall, but it should be noted that vines under 10 years old (20 ha) do not go into the grand vin, so that the average age of the vines contributing to the grand vin is closer to 45 years. The oldest parcel, known as « La Gravière », was planted in 1886.
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Texts and documents 2010
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots, labels. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.