2002 Château Carbonnieux

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  7/27/2023 - Oliverl1 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  2002 was not a great year and this not a great Chateau, but I thought I would give it a go as my local retailer is offering a few bottles at only $25 each. Well, this bottle had obviously been stored perfectly! Decanted for 3 hours. This is a nice fully mature wine from the Pessac that will not improve further. Really enjoyable and truly excellent QPR. If I had tasted it blind and someone told me it was a $50 or $60 bottle, I would have believed them.

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  11/1/2018 - stjl Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Dark ruby colored. It smells like strawberry and black currant . A nice surprise given 2002 is the poorest year of the decade: a very nice nose, a palate with fiew tanins and a lot pf fruits, but a little lack of depth and finish.

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  9/22/2014 - Hypersphere Likes this wine: 91 Points

  shame i only had one left. it is one of those wines which withstood the 02 uneven curse very well. Tannins still not fully integrated but almost there, i would drink what you have left

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  11/15/2013 - englishman's claret wrote: 88 Points

  The disc is mature here. Cherries on the nose, baked earth, a touch of saline. A little more one-dimensional on the palate; a hair thin. Not bad, though. Needs to be drunk now.

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  9/30/2012 - YoyoBasel wrote: 88 Points

  Ready to drink now. Decanted it for one hour and really enjoyed

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