Lafiten.
/laˈfiːt/ Used as the designation of the claret produced and bottled at Château Lafite, in the Médoc district of the Gironde, France.
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claret?1533
Bordeauxc1570
Haut-Brion1663
terse1671
Margaux1705
Lafite1707
long cork1759
Médoc1793
loll-shraub1816
comet claret1828
Latour1833
Mouton1833
palus1833
St. Emilion1833
Larose1841
Pauillac1858
Pontet-Canet1860
Pomerol1866
Léoville1875
Mouton-Rothschild1880
1707 London Gaz. No. 4333/8 To be sold an entire Parcel of New French..Claret..being of the Growth of Lafitt, Margouze, and La Tour.
1791 T. Jefferson Let. 13 May in Papers (1982) XX. 405 Bordeaux wines. Red. There are 4. crops which are best and dearest, to wit Chateaux-Margaux... Tour de Segur... Hautbrion... and De la Fite.
a1845 R. H. Barham Lord of Thoulouse in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 186 Chambertin, Chateau Margaux, La Rose, and Lafitte.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. viii. 237 We'll have some Lafitte.
1888 Athenæum 21 Apr. 499/1 Your noble magnum of Lafitte E'en Rothschild would have deem'd a treat.
1920 G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-bk. iv. 48 A '71 Lafite which hailed from Pall Mall.
1931 S. Jameson Richer Dust iv. 77 His glass about to be filled for the third time with an excellent Lafitte.
1963 A. L. Simon Guide Good Food & Wines 732/1 The spelling of Lafite with two f's and two t's instead of one occurs in old records and even on old labels, but all forms are now obsolete other than Lafite. There are other Châteaux in the Gironde, however, bearing the same name with different spelling.
1973 Country Life 19 Apr. 1052/2 Similar bottles of '66 of Lafite and Latour brought £360 and £300 respectively.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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