2006 Château La Tour Carnet

Community Tasting Notes (75) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  2/16/2024 - juffer Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Earthy nose of forest floor and tobacco. Elegant medium weight, savory long finish.

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  1/21/2024 - Doanebob Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Drinking well now. Very balanced with red fruit and smooth tannins. Drinking better than the 2005. It is an open wine and needs only an hour to decant.

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  4/1/2023 - VinVet Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Deep garnet color in the glass. Beautiful raspberry, blackberry and blueberry nose. Dark berry palate with balanced acidity and notable grainy tannins that soften with time in the glass. The lengthy finish completes this enjoyable experience.

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  1/31/2023 - Jake Barnes Likes this wine: 88 Points

  From a bottle purchased at auction. Almost no bricking. The tannins were finer grained and riper than those of the last bottle but still quite drying. Better on the nose than the palate. There was more fruit than tertiary action, and it was still showing a fair amount of oak. There were plenty of red and black fruits and it had decent balance, but the tannins really robbed this of what good there was.
  
  Much better on day two—softer, deeper, and more cohesive and with a longer finish. I now know that the key to enjoying these is air or waiting a bit longer. That being said, I still plan on drinking these up this year. 13.5% ABV (good; high average/**/15/88)

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  1/6/2023 - Jake Barnes wrote: 87 Points

  First of six auction bottles, this one with a base neck fill. A broad-shouldered tannic monster on PnD, and an hour of air didn’t make a difference. A little bricking but not much tertiary development evident. Red over black fruits, cedar, and a touch of undergrowth on the pungent nose and mostly red fruits on the nicely concentrated but very coarse, tannic palate. Even after four hours, this was still bristling with tannins. I was going to say the good news is there was plenty of fruit and one might wait and see if time helps, but at sixteen years of age and with such coarse tannins, I suspect this is what it is and that waiting for the wine to soften is just waiting for Godot. I’m going to enjoy these this year. 13.5% ABV (good; average/**/15/87)

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