Chateau Lafite is a prestigious French wine estate name, commonly pronounced in English-speaking contexts as a two-word proper noun. It denotes the Lafite Rothschild producer and its flagship wine, Chateau Lafite Rothschild. The canonical French pronunciation is roughly “sha-toh lah-feet” with silent final consonants in English-adapted speech, often anglicized in non-French settings.
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