Lafite origin

Lafite red wine is very famous in the world, everyone should have heard of Lafite's famous name, so where is the origin of Lafite? How can you tell the true from the false?

I. the origin of Lafite

The origin of Lafite red wine is the red wine produced by Chateau Lafite, which is one of the five famous chateaux in Bordeaux, France, with a long history. Lafite hops, fruit aroma, mellow, elegant, known as the queen of the wine kingdom.

Second, how to tell the true from the false?

1. Look at the sealing iron: Lafite's sealing iron is the easiest to identify. At the top of his design is the chateau castle, with the words Lafite Rothschild in the middle. The iron sheet in the picture is from the 1980s to 2002, and the design is more or less the same. The only difference is that the color of the iron sheet is slightly different, showing a different red. The iron sheet at the bottom right of the picture is the iron sheet of the bottle of Lafite sub-brand wine Carruades de Lafite, with Domains Barons de Rothschild written on it and the logo of Rothschild's five arrows in the middle. If you look carefully, you will find that these five arrows will be slightly different from Mouton's five arrows, with the word Lafite printed on the R in the middle, representing the Lafite Rothschild family.

two。 Look at the bottle: in Lafite before 1996, the bottle was like a bottle of ordinary Bordeaux, without any pattern under the bottleneck, but in 1996, in order to prevent counterfeiting, the winery adopted a special bottle. Back in Lafite in 1985, wine bottles were engraved with special patterns because of the astronomical phenomenon that Halley's comet returned only once every 76 years. So the bottle is engraved with the words of 1985 and the pattern of Halley's comet. In addition to this special edition, Lafite has only used ordinary Bordeaux bottles until 1996, when the bottle was engraved with the Rothschild family logo, five arrows and the word Lafite in the center. In 1999, the bottle had a new trick.

3. Look at the corks: show the corks of different years of Lafite, from left to right 1983, 1985, 1986, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2002 Lafite corks. The year is printed on the side of the cork, but no pattern or vintage is printed on the top of the cork, while on the other side of the cork, Lafite is printed with the word Grand Vin de Chateau Lafite Rothschild. In fact, the wine stopper design of Lafite in different years is more or less the same.

Although Lafite's wine is world-famous, many of them are fake. When buying, you must choose authentic Lafite and keep your eyes open to avoid being cheated.