CRITIC REVIEWS
Neal Martin
Tasted blind from a magnum at Wine magazines 10-Year horizontal. I was not impressed. A dried out nose. Little structure on the palate with high acidity. Nowhere near the quality of Mouton-Rothschild 1991 or Latour 1991. There a faint echo of sweetness but no structure and incredibly austere. Poor. Tasted April 2001.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Lafites light-bodied 1991 possesses moderate ruby color, a solid innercore of fruit, as well as potentially excessive tannin for its size and constitution. The wine exhibits Lafites subtle personality with a leafy, tobacco, lead pencil nose intertwined with sweet aromas of cassis. Dry, austere, and lacking length, it should turn out to be a good representation of Lafite-Rothschild in this so-so year.