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    Home|Bordeaux|Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2020 750ml
    Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2020 750ml
    Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2020 750ml
    Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2020 750ml
    Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2020 750ml

    Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2020 750ml

    D 100 | JS 98 | RP 97 | JR 17

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    Red Wine
    Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion
    France
    Bordeaux
    Pessac Leognan
    2020
    750ml
    Drink or Keep
    Cabernet Franc Blend
    Dry

    The 2020 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is a standout, blending power and finesse beautifully. It features a deep, complex profile with aromas of blackberries, spices, rose petals, and cocoa. The palate is harmonious and weightless, with vibrant fruit, elegance, and a long, refined finish. A blend of 40% Cabernet Franc, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 26% Merlot, it showcases a fine balance between freshness and richness. The wine benefits from innovative winemaking methods, including whole-bunch fermentation and maturation in a mix of new oak, foudres, and amphorae. It's a wine of both elegance and structure, set to age beautifully.

    Decanter | D 100
    Published: Jan 3, 2023
    Drink: 2028-2048

    The best 2020s seem to be confident without showing off or shouting too loudly and this Carmes does just that. Focused and precise, this is complex and characterful, rich yet vibrant with a texture and taste that makes an impact straight away. Fresh black fruits, floral notes and sensational minerality do the talking - it has weight, density and structure - broad and bold yet svelte, it has direction and persistence, building quickly then settling and elongating with such clarity and purity. This is a wine you want to drink. Cool, classic, sharp and decisive with a flawless texture. Whereas 2019 was more generous, this is more classic and easy to understand. An excellent job - seemingly effortless winemaking in 2020 - and a bottle that is sure to be emptied pretty quickly.
    Closure: Cork
    Alcohol: 13.65%
    Body: Full
    Oak: Oaked
    Grapes: 40% Cabernet Franc 34% Cabernet Sauvignon 26% Merlot

    JamesSuckling.com | JS 98
    Published: May 14, 2023


    Gorgeous aromas of crushed berries with orange peel. Fresh spices. Flowers. Salty. Full and so bright and vivid, with an elegance and beauty at the beginning and then it goes on and on. You see the intense fine tannins at the end. Dusty and bright. Unique wine. 55% whole cluster. 80% new wood, 10% amphora, and 10% foudra.

    The Wine Advocate | RP 97
    Published: Apr 06, 2023
    Drink: 2025-2055

    The 2020 Les Carmes Haut-Brion has turned out beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of blackberries, red fruits, exotic spices, rose petals, raw cocoa and licorice. Medium to full-bodied, seamless and layered, it's intensely flavored but weightless, with a compelling sense of harmony and a long, orange-inflected finish. A blend of 40% Cabernet Franc, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon and 26% Merlot, it was vinified with some 65% whole bunch and attained 13.5% alcohol. This is the first vintage where Pouthier's methods (whole bunch with weighted cap and long élevage incorporating larger vessels) were applied writ large, and the results are striking.

    Jancisrobinson.com | JR 17
    Published: Feb 15, 2024
    Drink: 2028-2040

    Tasted blind. Deep crimson. Lifted, ripe and oaky dark fruit. Juicy and refined on the palate, with real elegance and freshness. Not a blockbuster but harmonious and compelling in its refinement. 

    Les-carmes-haut-brion.com

    The top wine, the pride of the estate, has successfully created a synthesis between power and finesse, radiance and depth.

    Among the classic elegance of Pessac-Léognan, the Carmes top wine has carved out its own niche. Unprecedented proportions of Cabernet Franc offer a silky power which is then supported by the intensity of Cabernet Sauvignon. Within this structure, Merlot develops rounded and refined fruitiness: balance is the order of the day, ensuring a style that is complex and delicious in equal measures.

    2020 Blend : 40 % Cabernet Franc 34% Cabernet Sauvignon 26% Merlot

    Colour : Red
    AOC : Pessac-Léognan
    Owner : Pichet Family
    Estate Manager : Guillaume Pouthier
    Consultants : Derenoncourt Consultants

    Vineyard
    Plantation density : 10 000 vines / ha
    Average age of the vines in 2020 : 42 years-old
    Soil types : Mindel graves on clay and limestone
    Harvesting : 100 % hand-picked
    Harvest dates : 14th - 26th September 2020

    Vinification techniques
    Vats used : Thermoregulated tanks :
    Tronconic stainless steel tanks (60 hL),
    Concrete tanks (50 hL),
    Wooden tanks (76 hL)
    Duration : 35 days
    Barrel maturing : 80 % new oak barrels, 11 % foudres of 18 hL,
    9 % terracotta amphorae / standstone
    Duration : 24 months
    Noteworthy features of the vinification and / or maturing process :
    No crushing and partly by whole bunch fermentation
    Composition of the wine : 13.5 % / 3,62 pH

    This year when... the spring was even, there was even a frost. And then the story of this vintage continued with hot and dry weather.
    Beyond the weather conditions, it is a «battle of the tennins» which continues and which occupies the team at les Carmes.
    Seeking tirelessly and down to the smallest detail to construct these wines like stories, which roll out and unfold, revealing an energy that gradually diffuses, and calls for the sequel. Work, in the background, of precision engraving. 

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