This wine was my downfall. We had it with our friends with cod en papillote (in parchment paper). My husband finds this to be a simple meal to fix and his go to ingredients are artichoke hearts and roasted red peppers, the kind that you can get already made in a jar. He might also add green olives and lemon. Basically, whatever we have on hand goes into making this presentation friendly meal. I recognized the bottle and the chateau as a Bordeaux and I know that the only white grapes that grow in Bordeaux are Semillon and Chardonnay (wrong!). My husband seized upon this error and made me a bet that he knew he would win. In front of our friends, we bet that it was not Semillon and Chardonnay but Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc that went into a white Bordeaux. Well, you know who won the bet and the bet was that I have to make dinner for an entire week. I think my servitude ended yesterday evening. We later learned that this 2013 Les Hauts De Smith was mainly made of Sauvignon Blanc.
I read a great story about the owners of Chateau Smith-Haut-Lafitte, Daniel and Florence Cathiard, on the online Wine Spectator in an article titled
Olympic-Size Ambition.
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