Winery - Château Carbonnieux
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
92-94 Powerful and rich wine, full of ripe pineapple and peach flavors. The wine is smooth, toasty, concentrated. Immense ripe fruit.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
With its slightly stalky character, its black currant fruits, and its dry, slightly austere tannins freshened by acidity, this is the wine for those who like truly classic Bordeaux.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a superb wine, broad and rich but with complexity from mature vines and wood aging. For a 2003—a hot year—this still brings together some great acidity. Can drink now, but will age over the next 10 years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
90-92 Barrel sample. Forward, fresh wine, that has some good intensity as well. There is a creamy, ripe character under the freshness, hints of attractive wood.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
92-94 Barrel sample. Big and bold, this wine may lack grace, but it has many other attractive elements, like its ripe fruits, its Technicolor tannins and its dark flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
90-92 Barrel sample. Lemon, honey and spice dominate this attractive wine which is poised, light and fresh. There is a little structure of gooseberry tannins which add to the pleasure.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Full-bodied, smooth wine, with spice and black plum fruit flavors packed into the sweet tannic structure. It’s solid and chunky, a sign of the greater concentration coming out of Carbonnieux in recent years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
86—88 Barrel sample. Some green, stalky fruit on the nose. A wine that has some stalky character, bitter chocolate, dark fruit. The tannins are solid, dark, but this is essentially a dry, tannic wine.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
90-92 Barrel sample. Tight tannins set the scene for a wine that is firm, but with delicious blackcurrant fruit flavors. The tannins are dry under this freshness. Very vivid aftertaste.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dominated by the grassy characters of Sauvignon Blanc, this is a tight wine, almost cool in its character. The fruit skin tannins are very apparent, giving the wine a crispness, layering acidity and a strong citrus element.
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