Long Dai 2021 瓏岱

TASTING NOTE BY MSQ

【瓏岱——中國拉菲】

瓏岱（Long Dai）​是來自山東拉菲羅斯柴爾德酒莊（Domaine de Lafite Rothschild in Shandong）​的頂級葡萄酒，由鼎鼎大名的拉菲酒莊所在的Domaines Barons de Rothschild（DBR Lafite）​傾力打造。

​瓏岱是酒莊的首個年份旗艦酒款，取名自山東蓬萊的「瓏岱山」，寓意「精雕細琢的珍寶」。採用波爾多混釀風格，精選赤霞珠、馬瑟蘭等品種，展現出優雅的結構與所在地風土的獨特礦物感，被譽為「中國的拉菲」。

2021年份呈深紫羅蘭色，花果香縈繞鼻尖久久不散，清雅的牡丹與覆盆子、蔓越莓香交織，淡淡的可可香恰到好處。酒體豐盈，富有層次，干凈鮮美。平衡絲滑的單寧、鮮活的口感，以及悠長的余味讓人意猶未盡。

TASTING NOTE BY WINE CRITICS

2021 Long Dai has a deep purple appearance and sports an immediately appealing and approachable nose of vibrant, perfumed, black cherry, bramble, cassis, mulberry, blueberry and damson (this assemblage of fruit notes is derived from the combinations of Cabernets and Marselan) with some leafy herbaceousness and complemented by oak-influenced vanilla, clove, toast and smoke (the 2021 vintage saw around 18 months maturation in French barriques, percentage of new undisclosed, all issuing from DBR Lafite’s coopers). On the palate, it is full-bodied with impressively ripe and polished, fine-grained tannins; there’s been a real effort here, as in the 2020 vintage, to shape Marselan’s sometimes austere tannin profile with vibrant acidity and very well-integrated 13.5% alcohol. There’s an impressive core of ripe, vinous and vivacious dark fruit with integrated oak and well-managed pyrazine. With its long length and layered finish, this strikes me as on par with the 2020. That said, I would need to taste both Hu Yue and Long Dai vertically to reappraise the wines. Already approachable, 2021 Long Dai has a significant life ahead of it and will develop well in bottle over, at least, the next 8-10 years.

RATING BY WINE CRITICS

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