Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion 2021

Red wine | Pessac-Léognan AC

Under the classic elegance of Pessac-Léognan, the great Carmes wine unfolds a unique score. Cabernet Franc, in unprecedented proportions, offers silky power, relayed by the intensity of Cabernet Sauvignon. On this structure, Merlot develops a round and fine fruit: the balance is there and guarantees a style that is as complex as it is delicious.

Product variants

CHF 139.00 (75cl)

CHF 18.53/10cl

France Bordeaux
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
5 - 25 years
13.50% vol.

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Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion 2021

CHF 139.00 (75cl)

Colour

A beautiful dark and intense purple red, with almost black reflections.

Nose

Beautiful aromatic complexity, with nuances of blackcurrant, black cherry, blackberry jelly, dark chocolate and licorice, followed by floral notes and a slight touch of salinity and graphite.

Palate

Fleshy entry in the mouth and meticulous in its texture, the wine shines with its touch and its flesh in the mid-palate, melting on the palate, juicy, nuanced, complex, deep and noble in a superb construction. A sophisticated, pure and deep vintage.

Ideal to accompanying

Charcuterie, meat and game terrine, stuffed turkey, oven roast, T-bone steak, café de Paris entrecôte, leg of lamb, royal couscous, venison couscous, soft cheese, dark chocolate fondant.

How to serve

Serving temperature: 16 - 18°C

Wine-growing terroir

The ten hectares of land are divided between gravel, clay and sand. It is the affinities of the land which guided the grape varieties. Cabernet Franc (39%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (20%), further on, Merlot (41%) is growing. A plant mosaic which establishes the atypical profile of the estate.

Winemaking

Manual harvest, vatting for 35 days, aging in oak barrels (70% new wood, 20% tuns and 10% in terracotta jars) for 24 months.

Bottle closure

Cork

Packaging

Wooden box

Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion

Patrice Pichet acquired the Carmes estate at the end of 2010. The investment, of course, has a taste for challenge but also serves an authentic passion for wine, carrying the most beautiful ambitions. Inaugurated in 2016, the new winery designed by Philippe Starck and Luc Arsène-Henry marks a new era at the château. Between a work of art and a cutting-edge tool, it embodies a renewed ambition for excellence. Les Carmes Haut-Brion, pride of the estate, the great wine plays a successful art of synthesis, between strength and finesse, radiance and depth.

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