Chateau Les Carmes Haut Brion 2022

Bewertungen

• 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."

• 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."

• 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."