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2025 Ch Les Carmes Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan - 6x75cl
06C5CARM6PK _ 2025 - Ch Les Carmes Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château les Carmes Haut-Brion
  • Region Pessac-Léognan
  • Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Drinking 2028 - 2065
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur

2025 - Ch Les Carmes Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château les Carmes Haut-Brion
  • Region Pessac-Léognan
  • Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Drinking 2028 - 2065
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur
Case price: £429.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2026, Score: 97-98

    Les Carmes Haut Brion is a stand-alone wine in Pessac, following its own course as a blend of 54% Cabernet Franc, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot and using 60% whole bunch vinification. Winemaker Guillaume Pouthier and his team have yet again crafted an incomparable wine. Layered black cherry aromas with mocha, freshly ground coffee and a touch of liquorice. A deep intense wine, the sweetness of fruit is refreshed by the saline edge, coming from the stalks according to Guillaume. Very deep in flavour, the ripe mature tannins give both depth and longevity.

  • Neal Martin, May 2026, Score: 95-97

    The 2025 Les Carmes Haut-Brion comes from clay-limestone soils and was picked from September 7 to 19, with a high level of Cabernet Franc (54%) and lower Merlot (17%). This vintage has 65% whole cluster, similar to 2022, raised in 70% new oak barrels, 19% in 18hl foudres and 11% amphoras. This takes time to open on the nose: blacker, darker fruit than the Le C, black plum and touches of iris flower. Very pure, very well defined. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly chalky tannins on the entry, crunchy in the mouth, black fruit interlaced with Earl Grey, subtle ash-like notes. Linear towards the finish but very sustained in the mouth, there is plenty of energy in this Les Carmes-Haut-Brion and it should age with style and grace. More sapidity on the finish than the Dead Sea. 13.1% alcohol. Drink 2032-2060

  • Wine Advocate, April 2026, Score: 95-98

    The 2025 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is a blend of 54% Cabernet Franc, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon and 17% Merlot, one of the highest proportions of Cabernet Franc at the estate and comparable to 2016. It was vinified with 65% whole clusters and matured in 70% new oak. It reveals a complex, harmonious bouquet of pomegranate, iris and peony, intertwined with cassis, mulberries and dark berries. Medium- to full-bodied, dense and structured, it’s deep and layered, its concentrated core of fruit framed by velvety structuring tannins, concluding with a long, mineral-inflected finish. Combining tension with an ethereal profile, it delivers remarkable clarity, freshness and elegance. While slightly more overtly structured at this stage than the prodigious 2022, it remains impeccably balanced.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Score: 96-98

    The 2025 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is a huge, powerful wine that is going to need many years to come into its own. Dark red/purplish fruit, lavender, incense, melted road tar and licorice make a bold entrance. Fertility in the Merlots was low. As a result, the 2025 has the highest amount of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon ever, 83% in total as opposed to the more typical 70% or so. Whole clusters, always a part of the approach here, are 65%. Time on skins was 45 days at 27°C (80.6°F) compared to the 35 days at 30°C (86°F) that is more typical. Readers will find an especially deep, potent Carmes, a wine that will need the better part of a decade to shed some of its considerable baby fat. It's a telling example of the vintage, with 1% less alcohol than in most recent years. Today the 2025 is a mere infant. It's another exceptional wine from Technical Director Guillaume Pouthier and his team. Drink 2033-2075.

  • Jancis Robinson, May 2026, Score: 17.5/20

    54% Cabernet Franc, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot. 38 hl/ha. 65% whole bunch. Cask sample. Poised, precise and perfumed. Resonates with aromatic fruit on the palate. Lovely texture, the fine-grained tannins silky and fresh. A little sweetness of ripe fruit but the finish lively and long. Drink 2030-2050

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2026, Score: 97-98

    Les Carmes Haut Brion is a stand-alone wine in Pessac, following its own course as a blend of 54% Cabernet Franc, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot and using 60% whole bunch vinification. Winemaker Guillaume Pouthier and his team have yet again crafted an incomparable wine. Layered black cherry aromas with mocha, freshly ground coffee and a touch of liquorice. A deep intense wine, the sweetness of fruit is refreshed by the saline edge, coming from the stalks according to Guillaume. Very deep in flavour, the ripe mature tannins give both depth and longevity.

  • Jane Anson, April 2026, Score: 96

    I was a little nervous to be honest about Carmes Haut-Brion, worried that this would be too sliced-through with steel acidity this year with the high Cabernet Franc, but I was worrying unnecessarily. It's totally beautiful, sleek, grilled campfire, a ton of momentum and there is a spherical feel through the mid palate, expanding and deepening the fruit flavours. High floral as you would expect, a crush of peony, iris, violet right on the first nose, chalky and slate edge to the tannins, full of energy, 14%abv at picking then whole cluster brought it down to 13%, 3.6ph, 65% whole bunch during fermentation. 38hl/h yield (compared to 24hl/ha yield last year after selection), 70% new oak. 3.59 pH. Harvest September 7 to 19, this is highest levels of Cabernet Franc to date.

Producer

Château les Carmes Haut-Brion

Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion is one of the tiniest and least known Pessac Leognans. Only a fraction over 4.5 hectares, it is superbly placed - a stone's throw from Haut Brion and La Mission Haut Brion. Many believe Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion is close to the style of its neighbours as the terroir is basically the same. Due to the minute quantities produced, it is not the easiest wine to find and is sought after the world...Read more

Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion is one of the tiniest and least known Pessac Leognans. Only a fraction over 4.5 hectares, it is superbly placed - a stone's throw from Haut Brion and La Mission Haut Brion. Many believe Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion is close to the style of its neighbours as the terroir is basically the same. Due to the minute quantities produced, it is not the easiest wine to find and is sought after the world over.Read less

Region

Pessac-Léognan

Stretching from the rather unglamorous southern suburbs of Bordeaux, for 50 km along the left bank of the river Garonne, lies Graves. Named for its gravelly soil, a relic of Ice Age glaciers, this is the birthplace of claret, despatched from the Middle Ages onwards from the nearby quayside to England in vast quantities. It can feel as though Bordeaux is just about red wines, but some sensational white wines are produced in this area from a blend of sauvignon blanc, Semillon and, occasionally, muscadelle grapes, often fermented and aged in barrel. In particular, Domaine de Chevalier is renowned for its superbly complex whites, which continue to develop in bottle over decades. A premium appellation, Pessac-Leognan, was created in 1987 for the most prestigious terroirs within Graves. These are soils with exceptional drainage, made up of gravel terraces built up in layers over many millennia, and consequently thrive in mediocre vintages but are less likely to perform well in hotter years. These wines were appraised and graded in their own classification system in 1953 and updated in 1959, but, like the 1855 classification system, this should be regarded with caution and the wines must absolutely be assessed on their own current merits.

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