2020 Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 96.2 points

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  5/11/2024 - richshoes Likes this wine: 95 Points

  first taste was a fluke--has been pretty amazing since.... super luscious, multiple-layered, great balance of masculinity and femininity tied together by its elegance...sour dark plum, dark cherry, raspberry, hints of mocha

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  3/25/2024 - richshoes Likes this wine: 96 Points

  I have had this a couple times since my initial tasting...what a difference. I don't know what was wrong with my palate for those couple of days--as everything tasted off....wine is really amazing, super polished...definitely still young, but dark caramel cherry with nice mocha notes--very layered, elegant.

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  3/19/2024 - Romol Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted for 1+ hour. As expected, the wine is very young. This young Bordeaux is already great to drink. I don't have much experience with this chateau yet, but I am very curious to see how this wine will develop. 93 pts. at the moment.

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  2/15/2024 - richshoes Does not like this wine: 86 Points

  This is probably the worst high end wine I've ever had. First sips tasted like a cheap wine--lot of bell pepper, astringent, dark berry without the fruit, flavor profile all over the place. Tasted like the wine they serve on international flights in economy.
  
  Wine got better over time, but pretty uneven. No terroir either. Imagine too young to open, but I've opened plenty of other young wines like this and they are always amazing.
  
  Maybe it would've been better tomorrow or a few years from now, but I found it almost undrinkable.
  
  The structure was very very lovely though.
  
  Comments and suggestions are welcome.

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  1/5/2024 - SARED wrote: 95 Points

  Won’t hit highs of Figeac this vintage. Which means I underscored Figeac.

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