Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion Le C des Carmes Haut-Brion

Red
France
Pessac-Léognan
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Franc
Malbec
Merlot
Petit Verdot
Carménère

Tracked vintages: 8
Community notes: 176
Merchant offers: 61

What we know about this wine

Critics: 93/ 1002022 vintage
Real drinkers: 80/ 100176 notes, every vintage
Market price: £26per 75 cl2022 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
Drinking window: 2025–2048drinking2022 vintage

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 38 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Bordeaux Pessac-Léognan.

Body4.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.2 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin4.2 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · oak, tobacco, cedar, chocolate, cigar
Black fruit · plum, cassis, blackberry, dark fruit, black fruit
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, strawberry
Earth · leather, earthy, graphite, smoke, minerals
Spice · licorice, pepper, anise, savory, mint
Floral · perfume, potpourri, violet

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Carménère. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£21–£26GBP per 75 cl · 5 priced vintages

2016One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2019; 95 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2019; drinking, window 2022–2046
Lowest price: 2021; £21 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Le C des Carmes Haut-Brion monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 2 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Le C des Carmes Haut-Brion monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2022	£26	93.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2021	£21	92.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2020	£21	93.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2019	£23	94.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2016	£23	90.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021

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