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Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, 2000

Red Wine from Bordeaux, France
by Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion
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Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion sits just across the road from the illustrious Haut-Brion, within the city limits of Bordeaux itself—one of the few vineyards remaining inside the urban landscape. The estate takes its name from the Carmelite monks who owned it from 1584 to the French Revolution. The property was acquired by Patrice Pichet in 2010 and has since become one of Pessac-Léognan's most talked-about wines, though this 2000 vintage predates that era. The wine unusually features a high proportion of Cabernet Franc alongside Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, giving it a distinctive aromatic lift. At 25 years old from a celebrated vintage, this is mature Bordeaux showing complex aromatics of tobacco, earth, and evolved fruit, with the signature smoky, gravelly character of the appellation.

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Antonio Galloni

88 points

"The 2000 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is a blend of 55% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a vintage that I have not tasted since just after bottling. It’s beginning to brick on the rim but still displays good depth of color. The nose is a little rustic and slightly animally, showing saddle leather, broom, undergrowth/peat and black fruit. There’s good intensity here, but maybe just a touch of brettanomyces. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy, quite dry tannins. Muscular and grippy with a balsamic-tinged finish, the 2000 packs quite a punch, although it does have bucolic charm. I would drink bottles now, although I suspect this will remain solid for the next 12–15 years." —Neal Martin

Robert Parker

94 points

"This is a slight upgrade for this wine, which seems to be approaching full maturity but is in no danger of losing fruit or declining for at least another 10 years. It is one of the most elegant wines of the vintage, with an ethereal nose of red and blue fruits, spring flowers, and hints of bay leaf and graphite, while unsmoked cigar tobacco and plum also make an appearance in the strikingly complex aromatics and flavors. The wine is medium-bodied, not a blockbuster by any means, but a wine of terrific balance, purity, symmetry, and style. Drink it over the next 20 years." —Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Wine Spectator

90 points

"Gorgeous wine. Very ripe, with exotic fruit and smoky, earthy undertones. Medium- to full-bodied, with fine tannins and a long finish. Much better than what I tasted from barrel."

More about Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion

Recently acquired by Patrice Pichet, this Pessac-Léognan Graves property has found new focus. The terroir is distinctive—a different expression of the Left Bank—and these wines have a savory elegance that separates them from Médoc neighbors. Definitely worth discovering.

Wine Details

  • Vintage

    2000

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Traditional

  • Sweetness

    Dry

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Beef tenderloin, roasted duck, aged cheeses

Tasting Profile

Mature garnet with complex aromas of dark berries, leather, and tobacco. Well-integrated tannins, flavors of cherry, plum, and mineral notes with an elegant, nuanced finish.

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