2020 La Tour Carnet
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Tasted blind. Deep crimson. Dark, riper and still on the savoury side, then more cedary as it opens. Dry, fine tannins but a little dilute on the mid palate. (JH)
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
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The 2020 La Tour Carnet showed extremely well just after bottling. This showing reveals a different wine that is a little austere on the nose and more tertiary in style with freshly rolled tobacco and smoky scents. The palate is medium-bodied with dry tannins. It seems to have lost some of its weight and grip. I'd like to revisit this in a year's time. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.
Aromas of raspberries, crème de cassis, cigar wrapper and loamy soil introduce the 2020 La Tour Carnet, a medium to full-bodied, velvety and polished wine that's more harmonious and better balanced than Magrez's Grands Chênes. This large estate has eaten up many of the Haut-Médoc's non-classified growths over the past decade to arrive at a surface area of over 130 hectares today.