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Carmes Haut Brion 2009

Pessac-Leognan

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Tasting Notes

Served blind at the Southwold 2009 tasting. The Les Carmes Haut-Brion ‘09 has a very showy ostentatious bouquet with ripe black fruit, creme de cassis and blueberry that explodes from the glass. The palate is full-bodied with rounded succulent black fruit, low acidity, plush and generous with a long sweet, rather oaky finish. It bears similarities to Smith Haut Lafitte in style although compared to the bottle last November there is just a touch more weight on the finish. Tasted January 2013.

Score: 92

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 01 July 2013

Still youthfully tight, this shows a packed core of plum, cassis and blackberry fruit wrapped with bittersweet cocoa, tobacco and charcoal notes. Nice drive marks the finish, with gorgeous polish, as a mouthwatering linzer torte note expands as it opens in the glass. Drink now through 2020.

Score: 92

James Molesworth, Wine Spectator Maturity: 2012-2020 31 March 2012

Round and friendly, with soft and velvety tannins and delicious plum, spice and meaty aromas and flavors. Juicy finish. Subtle and rich. Better in 2016.

Score: 93

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2016+ 14 February 2012

Beautiful, Burgundian-like aromas of burning embers, roasted Provencal herbs, black currants and sweet cherries and raspberries emerge from this medium-bodied, elegant 2009 Pessac-Leognan. Medium to full-bodied and seductive with sweet tannins as well as a surprisingly evolved, precocious personality (even for a 2009), it will offer delicious drinking over the next 15+ years. This is another wine in which I noticed subtle bottle variation.

Score: 92

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2012-2027+ 01 February 2012