2015 Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion

Community Tasting Notes (44) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  12/9/2023 - ggroebli wrote: 93 Points

  Froid, élégant, aérien.

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  11/25/2023 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Re-tasted these days, I am a little disappointed by this wine, which was excellently rated as primeurs. In my humble opinion, it is now surpassed by 2014 and 2017 and there is little chance that this will change.

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  6/11/2023 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 96 Points

  My colleagues and I hosted a Carmes H-B mini vertical last night to redefine the odds against the fabulous 2022 vintage. We can't put 100 points everywhere.
  
  1) 2022 100/100
  2) 2016 99/100
  3) 2020-2021 98-99/100
  4) 2018 98/100
  5) 2014-2017-2019 97/100
  6) 2005 96/100
  7) 2012 94/100
  8) 2013 91/100
  
  (2021 and 2022 tasted on samples)

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  4/23/2023 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very nice and beginning to drink. Classic Bordeaux, with good all round structure and fruit. Long, some complexity. Drinking now, better in 5 years.

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  11/23/2022 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points

  Ten Vintages Haut Bailly vs Mission HB: Preamble: All wines tasted blind in 10 vintage flights (1994-2015). To every flight one random third wine from Pessac Leognan added (2x Haut Brion, 2x Smith, 2x Pape Clement, 1x Branon, 1x Luchy Halde, 1x Carmes, 1x Chevalier). All wines opened a few hours before consumption but no decanting.
  
  Some findings:
  1) Haut Bailly outperformed Mission (5 vs 4 wins, 92.5 vs 90.5 average). 2) Haut Bailly is a rather structured wine which seems to shine bright in ripe and warm vintages, without any form of excess ripeness or extraction. 3) When done right (05/15), Mission eclipses Haut Bailly with its depth and delineation , but several vintages showed a bit too ripe but especially with the alcohol not well masked (09/10). 4) Pessac wines usually need quite some air to open up. In this setting (no decanting), most wines needed a lot of swirling to fully open up and will need more cellar time. 5) The best wines today were Haut Bailly 09 (96pts) & 10 (95pts) and Mission 05 & 15 (95pts).
  
  TN: Expressive and well-defined, classically shaped bouquet. Lots of fine blue fruit, red fruits and then lots of green bell pepper and smoky notes, curshed rocks. On the palate that herbal, smoky and bell pepper notes lends a lot of freshness and lifts the wine with its blue and dark fruit core even more. Very fine but not as luxurious tannins as in the Mission 2015 in the next glass. Overall, this is a very fine, elegant, classic Bordeaux which is very fresh and blue-fruit driven which is not easy to achieve in the hot year. It probably misses a bit of the immediate charm of other 2015 (and the Mission 2015) but is nevertheless a very good wine.
  
  Decanting: Good from the go, a short decant should be sufficient.

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