Tasting Notes and Scores
The deep garnet-purple colored 2017 la Tour Carnet features Black Forest cake, blackcurrant cordial, earth and bouquet garni with wafts of lavender. The palate is medium-bodied, elegantly played, fresh and chewy with an herbal lift on the finish.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Wine Advocate
2020-03-16
The 2017 La Tour Carnet is a blend of 60% Merlot, 37% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Cabernet Franc picked between 21 September and 5 October, matured in 30% new oak barrel for 16 months. It needs some encouragement from the glass but eventually reveals scents of blackberry, boysenberry jam and a faint hint of orange rind. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly dry tannin that grip the mouth. There is fine purity and detail here, but it is resolutely linear and strict, and I find the finish needing a soupçon more fleshiness, just to offset the firmness of the tannins. - vinous.com, May 2018
Neal Martin
The deep garnet-purple colored 2017 la Tour Carnet opens with scents of cassis, plums and cherries with nuances of earth, tar and pencil shavings. Medium-bodied, it's just a little thin and chewy in the mouth but provides interesting fruit layers and pleasing harmony.
- Lisa Perrotti-Brown, erobertparker.com, April 2018
Wine Advocate
Deep crimson. Refined, restrained aroma of cedary cassis. Fresh and silky on the palate but pretty light overall. The tannins are just right for the overall balance with a gentle grip on the finish, that dusty/chalky quality at the very end. (JH)
Julia Harding MW
Jancis Robinson
2018-04-11
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