2002 Château La Tour Carnet

Community Tasting Notes (27) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  9/13/2021 - glassofhans Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Lovely tertiary notes and still full of fruit, punches above its weight for sure

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  4/30/2017 - Keith Clark Likes this wine: 95 Points

  I am so glad that I hung on to this last bottle for four years since the penultimate one from the case. It is drinking gloriously - maybe it could have lasted for another couple of years, but I don't think it would have improved. Still plenty of colour - a good deep red with some garnet and brownish hints, but no significant signs of age. Mixed red and black fruits on the nose, with pronounced liquorice. Strong yet mellow aromas. A lovely, lovely taste. Some spice lying behind soft and mellow black fruits (berries and currants). Not a lot of tannin, but what there is sustains a still good structure. Perfect drinking!

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  8/9/2016 - Andrewbdc wrote:

  The wine is clear and deep garnet in colour.
  The nose is clean with pronounced aromas of oak (cloves, smoke), fruit development (cooked blackberry, cooked blackcurrant, cooked dark plum, prune), tertiary (savoury, cedar). The wine is fully developed.
  The palate is dry with medium (+) acidity, medium (+) ripe tannins, medium (+) alcohol, medium (+) body, pronounced intensity flavours of cooked blackberry, blackcurrant, dark plum, cloves, cedar, toast. The finish is long.
  The wine is outstanding in quality. The fruit is concentrated with complexity from tertiary and secondary development. The finish is long and persistent. The acidity and tannins are balanced by the fruit concentration. This is excellent mature Bordeaux.
  The wine should be drunk now and is not suitable for further ageing. The primary fruit is almost completely gone so it is unlikely to develop further tertiary complexity. However there is no hurry to drink as it still has real concentration of flavour and plenty of acid and tannin structure to last for another 3-5 years.

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  6/20/2016 - Kris G Likes this wine: 90 Points

  classic Bordeaux with well structured acids, fine

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  4/1/2016 - Andrewbdc Likes this wine: 92 Points

  The wine is clear and deep garnet in colour. The bottle has a fine sediment, so needs decanting.
  The nose is clean with pronounced aromas of oak (cloves, smoke), fruit development (cooked blackberry, cooked blackcurrant, cooked dark plum, prune), tertiary (savoury, cedar). The wine is fully developed.
  The palate is dry with medium (+) acidity, medium (+) ripe tannins, medium (+) alcohol, medium (+) body, pronounced intensity flavours of cooked blackberry, blackcurrant, dark plum, cloves, cedar, toast. The finish is long.
  The wine is outstanding in quality. The fruit is concentrated with complexity from tertiary and secondary development. The finish is long and persistent. The acidity and tannins are balanced by the fruit concentration. This is excellent mature Bordeaux.
  The wine should be drunk now and is not suitable for further ageing. The primary fruit is almost completely gone so it is unlikely to develop further tertiary complexity. However there is no hurry to drink as it still has real concentration of flavour and plenty of acid and tannin structure to last for another 3-5 years.

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