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Carmes Haut Brion 2007

Pessac-Leognan

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Tasting Notes

Medium red-ruby. A dusty quality quickly dissipated, leaving aromas of dark raspberry, meat, mocha and menthol. Juicy and fresh, with sneaky intensity of currant and raspberry fruit flavor and an herbal element that contributes nuance. This juicy midweight boasts good shape and grip, finishing with building, slightly peppery tannins.

Score: 88

Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar 01 July 2010

Tasted at BBR’s Bordeaux 2007 tasting. This has quite a sappy, blackberry, boysenberry and blueberry nose with a slight tinniness becoming evident with aeration. Nice lift, but compact at the moment. The palate is commendable for the vintage, good concentration, thick tannins, a lot of new oak to be subsumed but still, well balanced with a weighty blackberry, cedar and boysenberry finish. Slight hardness on the finish, but that will disappear with time. This is a Les Carmes that wants to make a statement. Impressive.

Score: 91

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2012-2020 01 May 2010

As one might expect, this is not a big, deep effort, but rather a wine of quintessential elegance. Its deep ruby/purple hue is accompanied by complex, cedary, burning ember, charcoal, menthol, blueberry and raspberry notes. Medium-bodied, elegant, and complex, it is best consumed over the next 7-8 years.

Score: 89

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2010-2018 01 April 2010

Deep black-cherry colour. Sweet, perfumed dark fruit, a little cedary. Silky, fluid and light on the mid palate but scented and elegant. Not for the long term.

Score: 16

Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2011-2016 27 October 2009

Dilute, but there's still some clean fruit, with mineral character as well. Medium-to-light body. Short finish.

Score: 83 - 86

James Suckling, Wine Spectator 01 April 2008