2021 Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 96.2 points

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  3/11/2024 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Hello everyone. I have almost completed my tastings of the 2021 in bottles. There will be no more big surprises (Petrus not tasted). Basically, even if this vintage is not at the level of 2016, 18, 19, 20 and 22. To my taste it is very often superior to 2014 and 2017 in any case. It is very particular with enormous finesse and above all a precision in defining each terroir that is rarely achieved. A school model if you want to introduce your future alcoholic children. And for old people like me :O), the advantage is that it will be drinkable much faster than its elders. Since I'm swamped with work these days, I only put my best notes. For a rating of a particular wine, do not hesitate to write to me;
  
  1 Lafleur 98-99
  2 Carmes H-B 98
  3 Haut-Brion, Cheval Blanc, Vieux Certan, Margaux, Lafite 97
  4 Montrose, Las Cases, Le Pin 96-97
  
  And finally the Oscar for best value for money
  
  Laroque 94-95

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  3/9/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points

  With a spicy, savory edge to the red fruits in the nose, you also find a plethora of singed herbs, cigar wrapper, flowers, and cedar in the perfume. The red fruits on the palate are fresh, vibrant, elegant, refined, and salty, almost as if the berries were brined. The long finish has a hint of cocoa, chalk, oyster shells, and savory-tinted red fruits, with olives that come in on the up-beat, backend. The wine was made using 45% whole bunch clusters during fermentation. From a blend of 40% Cabernet Franc, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon and 25% Merlot, 13.5% ABV, pH 3.6. The wine is aging in a combination of 70% new, French oak, 20% foudres, and 10% amphora. Drink from 2025-2050.

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  3/4/2024 - FransS wrote: 92 Points

  UGCB tasting-Amsterdam 2021 Bordeaux 03-04-2024: Tasted twice, spicy nose, some vanilla and wood, juicy, good bitters and tannins; the wine is a bit more concentrated than most others.

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  1/25/2024 - ohne_musik wrote:

  UGCB SF Tasting Event (Metreon, San Francisco): Very pure berry fruit (almost crunchy), with a lovely texture and silkiness but no overt oak notes (amphora? or the power of suggestion). Lilacs, tobacco and a whisper of green. Pessac gravel and petrichor. 93+

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  1/24/2024 - KeithAkers wrote: 93 Points

  UGC 2021 Bordeaux (Vibiana, Los Angeles, CA): The nose is perfumed and refined with lovely tones of red cherries, raspberries, incense, violets, crushed flowers, crushed rocks, licorice, and some spice notes. The tones all work really well together at this young stage while showing off a good bit of depth. The Medium bodied feel is polished and deft with crisp, medium acidity and silky, medium tannins. The structure has some youth to it with the tones playing together beautifully already across the nose and palate. This is a real winner in the vintage and one of the few on the day that made me take notice. I would love to see where this develops over the next decade+.

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