2012 Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion

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89 Points

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - Small pour at a walk-around tasting hosted by a local specialty retailer. The cepage from this producer is typically very cab franc heavy, and the house style is accordingly on the light, herbal side. Given these facts, the leafiness was to be expected, and the lack of concentration only put it in line with many other 2012s and was not the issue. The issue was that like the other 2012s on offer that night there was just no there there—and a short finish to boot—making it bad QPR at about $120 a bottle when you could have such good wines from other only slightly younger vintages for the same money or less. Unknown ABV (very good (barely)/*** (just)/15.5/89)

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