Chateau de Carles 2020
Bordeaux Red Blends
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James
Suckling - Decanter
3.8 Very Good
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
2020
Size
750ML
Your Rating
Somm Note
Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Rich and perfumed nose of lavender, walnuts, neroli, plums and oranges. It’s medium-bodied with firm, chalky tannins. Pretty spice and fragrance with a chewy finish. Better after 2024.
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Decanter
Juicy and intense in flavour (strawberry and black cherry) but this retains a sense of elegance in the presentation, not too spicy or too ripe, but clear and well defined with good acidity, minerality and length. It maybe doesn't have the weight right now, the tannins are extremely firm, giving a slight sense of severity on the palate - definite tension and linearity - but this will open and widen if given time.
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Stephane Droulers, married to Constance Chastenet de Castaing, has been at the helm of the property, alongside her, since 1983. Concurrently, he is a senior managing director to the famed international investment bank, Lazard Freres. A man of passion for everything he undertakes, Stephane Droulers has put all of his professional talent behind the undying quest for the absolute quality, on which he has embarked with Carles.
They have brought back to life the property's majesty and lustre of yesteryear and now produce there one of the finest Bordeaux wines, looking ahead to the day when they will be able to pass it on, in turn, to their daughters Eleonore and Oriane.
Since 2007, he has benefited from the expertise of Jean-Luc Thunevin and Doctor Alain Reynaud, legendary figures in the Libourne region, and took on board Jean-Philippe Fort, rising oenology star at Michel Rolland’s Wine Consultancy.
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