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2021 Château les Carmes Haut-Brion, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Cabernet Franc (40%), Cabernet Sauvignon (35%), Merlot (25%)
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Product: 20218013701
2021 Château les Carmes Haut-Brion, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux

Description

Cabernet Franc 40%, Cabernet Sauvignon 35%, Merlot 25%.

As always at this nimble and iconoclastic estate, the ageing is in a mixture of larger foudres and standard (20% new oak) barriques, and 10% in amphorae. This shimmers with primary aromas, accented more toward black fruits than the customary oyster shell sometimes present at this stage. The palate unfurls with smoky, floral and menthol tones, each playing its role in a wine with such integrity than it appears simultaneously seamless and translucent. A wonderful expression of its place, perhaps a little more forward than in recent years, this is still a keeper.

Drink 2027 - 2045

Our score: 18.5/20

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2021
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Cabernet Franc (40%), Cabernet Sauvignon (35%), Merlot (25%)
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Château les Carmes Haut-Brion

About this wine

Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Franc is widely planted in Bordeaux and is the most important black grape grown in the Loire. In the Médoc it may constitute up to 15% of a typical vineyard - it is always blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and is used to add bouquet and complexity to the wines. It is more widely used in St.Emilion where it adapts well to the cooler and moister clay soils - Cheval Blanc is the most famous Cabernet Franc wine in the world, with the final blend consisting of up to 65% of the grape.
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Pessac-Léognan

Pessac-Léognan

In 1986 a new communal district was created within Graves, based on the districts of Pessac and Léognan. Pessac-Léognan has the best soils of the region, very similar to those of the Médoc, although the depth of gravel is more variable, and contains all the classed growths of the region. Some of its great names, including Ch. Haut-Brion, even sit serenely and resolutely in Bordeaux's southern urban sprawl.
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Château les Carmes Haut-Brion

Château les Carmes Haut-Brion is a 10.3-hectare wine estate in Pessac-Léognan on the Left Bank of Bordeaux. The property was established over 400 years ago. It takes its name from the Carmelites, the order of monks that tended it for almost 200 years. Once a little-known neighbour of the world-famous Châteaux Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion, things have changed rapidly here in recent years and it is today one of Bordeaux’s most exciting names. In 2010, the estate was acquired by Patrice Pichet, a French property developer. He quickly enlisted the dynamic Guillaume Pouthier as winemaker and director, and this has been a truly hot property ever since.
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