Château La Tour Carnet Haut-Médoc 2020 is a smooth and stylish Bordeaux with fresh blackcurrant, blueberry, and spice notes. It’s polished and vibrant, with fine tannins and a clean, focused finish. A classy pick that’s drinking well now but will shine even more in a few years.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 94
Published: Mar 29, 2023

Tight and linear with blackcurrant and lemon rind character. Medium-bodied and racy with very fine tannins and a bright finish. Shows energy and focus. Drinkable, but better in three or four years.

Decanter | D 92
Published: Feb 1, 2023
Drink: 2025-2040

Crisp and crunchy, though quite chalky and creamy with licks of liquorice and wet stone. Quite high-toned, feels tight and very coiled right now with clear cedar, cinnamon and clove spice. The fruit profile is good, ripe blackcurrant and blueberries, but the whole frame is constricted almost straight away. Does feel clean though with firmness. It has a classicism in the sleek nature - well formed with estate signature. 

The Wine Advocate | RP 91
Published: Apr 6, 2023
Drink: 2023-2040

Aromas of raspberries, crème de cassis, cigar wrapper and loamy soil introduce the 2020 La Tour Carnet, a medium to full-bodied, velvety and polished wine that's more harmonious and better balanced than Magrez's Grands Chênes. This large estate has eaten up many of the Haut-Médoc's non-classified growths over the past decade to arrive at a surface area of over 130 hectares today.

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 16
Published: Jan 25, 2024
Drink: 2025-3032

Tasted blind. Deep crimson. Dark, riper and still on the savoury side, then more cedary as it opens. Dry, fine tannins but a little dilute on the mid palate.

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Close to Bordeaux, discover the history of a mythical Grand Cru Classé of the Médoc surrounded by vineyards and endowed with a sumptuous garden.

 A unique château whose first harvest was carried out in 1409. 

- 2020 -

VINIFICATION

1st sorting in the vineyard. Manual sorting on a vibrating table, followed by destemming with a Pellenc WINERY. Densimetric sorting. Cooling of the harvest using a cryogenic tunnel (by spraying with liquid nitrogen). Gravity vatting using a vat. Vinification in wooden vats and small capacity cement vats. Cold pre-fermentation maceration (8°C). Entirely manual pigeages. Alcoholic fermentation at low temperature (28°C).

Duration of maceration: 25 to 32 days. Aging in barrels for 16 months, including 30% new barrels.

VARIETIES: 60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon