Chateau Les Carmes Haut Brion 2022

Bewertungen

• 100/100

  The Wine Cellar Insider
  At the same level as the perfect, 2016, this is an extraordinary-tasting experience. Opaque in hue, aromatically, the wine delivers a cornucopia of fruits, incense, curry, flowers, and smoke. The palate is even better with its endless layers of seamless fruits that caress your senses with their display of salt-tinged, spices, crushed rocks, pit fruits, berries, and white pepper. The seamless finish crosses the 60-second mark with poise, refinement, and purity. The wine was made using 60% whole bunch clusters, blending 40% Cabernet Franc, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 26% Merlot. The wine was aged in a combination of 70% new, French oak, 20% foudres, and 10% amphora. Drink from 2029-2060."

• 100/100

  Decanter
  Deep and brooding, this wine is beautifully floral with violets, irises, and peonies alongside ripe black cherries, liquorice, and dark chocolate. Concentrated yet bursting with energy, it flows effortlessly across the palate. Vibrant red fruits - strawberry, cherry, raspberry - sit atop a mineral backbone of salty, wet stones. Crisp yet powdery tannins and bright acidity give incredible tension. Despite its depth, it feels almost weightless, so drinkable yet built to age. Pure, pristine, and vibrant, with no trace of heat - just balance and finesse. Juicy, lively, and utterly compelling. A true expression of place and a sure-fire hit. 70% whole bunch fermented. Two years ageing, 80% new oak, 10% big 20hl vats and 10% amphora. 3.55pH. 40% Cabernet Franc, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot."

• 20/20

  Weinwisser
  40 % Cabernet Franc, 34 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 26 % Merlot, 13.5 Vol.-%, pH 3.64. 70 % ganze Trauben mit Stielen. Der Wein wird zu 70 % aus ganzen Trauben mit Stielen gewonnen und zu 70 % in neuen Fässern, zu 20 % in Foudre und zu 10 % in Amphoren ausgebaut. Ungeheuer vielschichtiges Bouquet, frisch gepflückte Alpenheidelbeere, roter Kirschsaft, betörendes Veilchenparfüm, getrocknete Rosenblätter, Schokopastillen, Brasiltabak und Brombeergelee. Am energiegeladenen Gaumen mit seidiger Textur, salzigem Extrakt, engmaschigem reifem Tanningerüst und kaskadenartigem Körper. Im konzentrierten Finale ein Feuerwerk von Wildkirschen, tiefschürfender Terroirwürze, Olivenpaste, dazu ein Hauch Menthol und ein ewig langes Finale mit royaler Adstringenz. Der beste Les Carmes ever und die Nummer 1 in Pessac. Chapeau Guillaume Pouthier!"

• 100/100

  The Wine Advocate
  The 2022 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is the finest wine bottled to date at this estate under Patrice Pichet's ownership and Guillaume Pouthier's direction. Unfurling from the glass with aromas of violet, iris, dark wild berries, pencil lead and mulberries, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and concentrated with a deep core of fruit beautifully framed by velvety, precise tannins, segueing into a long, saline and perfumed finish. Suave and harmonious, it was crafted with 70% whole bunches and matured in 70% new oak. This unconventional blend of 40% Cabernet Franc, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon and 26% Merlot represents a turning point for the estate, cementing its rapid ascendancy in the Bordeaux firmament."

• 99/100

  James Suckling
  The purity and focus here is impressive with blackcurrants, crushed stones and floral undertones. The whole-bunch character comes through clearly with rose-stem and floral aromas and flavors. Full-bodied, this is always so delicious but has lots of integrated, open-grained tannins. 70% whole-cluster fermentation. 40% cabernet franc, 34% cabernet sauvignon and 26% merlot. Idiosyncratic. So attractive now but will age beautifully."

• 98+/100

  Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2022 Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion checks in as a blend of 42% Cabernet Franc, 31% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the balance Merlot that saw plenty of stems in the ferments and 20 months in 80% new barrels. Its deeper ruby/purple hue is followed by a sumptuous nose of red, blue, and black fruits, as well as leafy herbs, darker chocolate, crushed stone, and almost bloody, iron-like nuances. I love its overall balance on the palate, and it's medium to full-bodied, has a pure, layered mouthfeel, beautifully integrated tannins, and a great finish. It shows the class of this great terroir and will benefit from 4-6 years of bottle age and still be drinking well in 30-40 years. You'd be hard-pressed to describe this as Bordeaux in a blind tasting today, yet I have no doubt it will develop more and more classic Graves character over the coming decade. It’s a sensational, singular wine."

• 98/100

  Falstaff
  Leuchtendes tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Floraler Touch nach kandierten Veilchen, reife rote Kirschen, ein Hauch von Brombeerkonfit, Nuancen von Lakritze, sehr vielschichtiges Bukett. Saftig, sehr komplex, straffe, reife Tannine, feine dunkle Beerenfrucht, mineralisch, feiner Vieille-Vignes-Charakter, balanciert, sehr große Länge, enormes Reifepotenzial für Jahrzehnte. Hat auch mit seinen 13,5 % ein enormes Volumen, zu jeder Zeit seidig, frisch und in seiner Art einzigartig."

• 97/100

  Lisa Perrotti-Brown
  This was bottled in September 2024, so at the time of tasting has only been in bottle three months. The blend is 40% Cabernet Franc, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon and 26% Merlot, with 70% whole-cluster vinification, and the élevage was in 70% oak barrels (75% new oak, 25% used), 15% in foudre s and 10% in terracotta amphorae. An expressive but also fine and delineated character on the nose, with scents of liquorice, blackberry, dried blackcurrant, dark chocolate, coffee bean and rose petal, showing an elegant Pessac-Léognan perfume. Retasted at the property the showing was perfectly consistent, straight from the bottle. The palate is charming, finely integrated and fresh, broadening out from a cool and quietly spoken start to a well-defined midpalate substance, correct, with finely polished and savoury fruit infused with classy fine-boned tannins with a powdery intensity which ease themselves onto the palate at the very end. There is a saline energy here, presumably tied to the used of whole cluster vinification, which enchants. A very stylish interpretation of the vintage, long and savoury, restrained in its body yet very expressive, and infused with those classy, mouth-watering tannins. Superb elegance, and a long energy. Give it ten years and more, this will be stunning. The alcohol on the label is 13.5%."

• 96/100

  Jane Anson
  Intense ruby colour, careful extraction. Love this, less in the style of the vintage in terms of exuberance than many, with a trace of austerity to the architecture. Has keeps its distinct character, showing mint leaf, crushed rose petals, vivid with a purity of fruit expression. The 70% limestone is distinctive, the high Cabernet Franc is distinctive, and the choices they make in the cellar underline these distinctions. Guillaume Pouthier director, Guillaume Deschepper technical director. First year ageing, with 70% new oak, second year move into larger oak casks and 10% amphoras. 70% whole cluster."

• 16,5/20

  Jancis Robinson
  Very dark blackish purple. Neat, concentrated but with the fruit rather than the tannins very much dominant. Almost gamey and with a very different structure from most of these 2022s. I'm not sure I'd pick it as a Graves but it's a very distinctive red bordeaux. Lightly sandy finish but not punishingly drying. More fragrant than most but a bit inky."