Les Carmes Haut Brion 2021

Les Carmes Haut Brion 2021

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  • Vinous rating 98
  • The Wine Independent rating 96
  • Robert Parker rating 95
  • Jane Anson rating 94
  • Jancis Robinson rating 17
Les Carmes Haut Brion 2021
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HED39135

75 cl

13.5%
£125.00
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Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion, a small property spanning 7.6 hectares, has become one of Bordeaux`s hottest names, boasting a stylish new winery designed by Philippe Starck. Winemaker Guillaume Pouthier, previously associated with Chapoutier in the Rhône, brings his expertise, often utilizing up to half whole bunch fermentation. The 2021 vintage is a blend composed of 40% Cabernet Franc, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 25% Merlot, aged in 70% new barriques, 20% new 18-hl foudres, and 10% amphoras. This wine stands out with its remarkable tannin texture, seamlessly melding with the wine to impart softness and finesse. Medium-bodied, it showcases a solid fruit core, with captivating, focused notes of cassis, blackberry, and crushed stones.
98 Vinous
The 2021 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is very possibly the wine of the vintage. Vertical and explosive, the 2021 possesses mind-blowing intensity and dynamic energy to burn. The 2021 is a heady, racy wine that captivates all the senses. Tobacco, mocha, cedar, leather, dried herbs, menthol, licorice and plum saturate the palate in a wine that dazzles from start to finish. The 2021 was bottled in late September 2023, much later than most wines, yet it is so expressive today. It was magnificent from barrel, and it is every bit as breathtaking today. Quite simply, Les Carmes is on another level. Bravo! Antonio Galloni27th February 2024
96 The Wine Independent
A blend of 45% Cabernet Franc, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 20% Merlot, Les Carmes Haut-Brion 2021 has a pH of 3.6. 55% whole bunches were used and it spent two years in barrel, which is four months longer than usual. It has an opaque garnet-purple color and it bursts from the glass with vivacious notes of redcurrant jelly, black cherry preserves, and black raspberries, followed by hints of garrigue, wild thyme, cast-iron pan, and dusty soil, with a touch of roses. The medium-bodied palate delivers intense red and black fruit layers, with a sturdy frame of tightly knit, grainy tannins and seamless freshness, finishing on a lingering ferrous note. With a structure and intensity like this, it should age slowly over the next 30-40 years+, which is an anomaly for this generally earlier drinking vintage.Lisa Perrotti-Brown23rd April 2024
95 Robert Parker
The 2021 Les Carmes Haut-Brion has turned out beautifully in bottle, though it is more introverted and brooding than it appeared during en primeur tastings, unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries mingled with spices, loamy soil, licorice, rose petals, gentian and black pepper. Medium to full-bodied, deep and seamless, with a concentrated core of fruit framed by ripe but abundant structuring tannins and bright acids, it concludes with a long, palate-staining finish. As readers may remember, it`s a blend of 40% Cabernet Franc, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon and 25% Merlot. - Yohan Castaing
94 Jane Anson
Deep ruby colour. This has a ton of Carmes signature right from the first moment, expressive, beautiful cool climate character and expression. Nuanced sanlity, leaning into the savoury character of 2021 and rendering it vivid and precise, with violet and iris florals, chalky tannic grip, crushed red rose petals, pomegranate, mandarin, liqourice, blueberry. Natural yeast fermentation, 70% new oak, 10% amphoras. 45% whole bunches, which for Carmes is lower than it has been in recent years (2022 being an all time high at 70%). 3.6ph.Jane Anson2nd April 2024
17 Jancis Robinson
40% Cabernet Franc, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot. 45% whole bunch. Cask sample.Deep purple-crimson hue. Lively and fresh with spicy, smoky notes on the nose. There’s a lushness to the ample fruit but lift and freshness as well, the plentiful tannins upright and integrated. Again, lots of energy and drive with just that bit more concentration than Le C. Clean, dry finish. Vibrant and harmonious. (JL)

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