2005 Château Carbonnieux

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  4/13/2024 - Wine Poor Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Delicious.

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  3/14/2024 - Eudemis Likes this wine:

  13.5% alcohol. CS 60%, M 30%, CF 10%. Shortish cork of vg quality. Decanted an hour ahead. Dark colour with minimal fading at the rim.
  Harmonious nose marrying dark berries and olive with tertiary notes of leather and ash; good complexity, then or what? The mouth is just as good with vg mouthfeel and excellent balance. Some residual tannins ensure good grip. There is class here without a doubt.
  I may be in a minority, but I am more impressed by the red than the white at this estate.
  Coming into its drinking period, which should last fifteen years easily.

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  2/4/2024 - dbkitc wrote: 88 Points

  Not a formal note. Enjoyable yet missing a bit in the mid palate. Seemed less complete than past bottles. Tired? Shouldn’t be but not sure. Other recent bottles have been better. (88)

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  1/9/2024 - Mi Pisco wrote: 93 Points

  Food, Pairing Tips
  
  Chateau Carbonnieux is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. The red wine of Chateau Carbonnieux is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes.
  
  Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/bordeaux-wine-producer-profiles/bordeaux/graves-pessac/carbonnieux/

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  1/9/2024 - Mi Pisco wrote: 93 Points

  2005 Château Carbonnieux Pessac-Léognan
  
  91
  Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Surprisingly reminiscent of a Burgundy grand cru such as Corton, this 2005 Pessac-Leognan offers a dark ruby hue as well as beautifully sweet, leafy, black cherry, and smoky aromas intermixed with hints of oak and earth. Not a blockbuster, it is a wine of finesse, delicacy, and purity with lovely balance, good acidity, ripe tannin, and a sweetness that permeates the flavors as well as the tannic structure. It should be drinkable at a relatively young age. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2025.
  91
  Connoisseurs' Guide
  On the one hand fairly polished, but in the other a wine of real richness and considerable weight, Carbonnieux speaks straight to what is best in the vintage and delivers plenty of well-ripened fruit within a balanced, classically claret-like frame. It may finish a bit of the astringent side at the moment, but it never dries out under the weight of its tannin, and its deep, long-lasting flavors show the kind of fruity buoyancy to make six to eight years of cellaring a risk-free proposition.
  90
  Wine Enthusiast
  A soft but vivid wine, with spice, tannins and acidity over opulently ripe fruit. It is rounded, a wine that is likely to develop well over the next 5–6 years. Impressively drinkable.

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