May 14, 2025
2024 Les Carmes Haut-Brion - Trascending the vintage
Les Carmes Haut-Brion 2024 has been released!
Transcending the vintage with incredibly high scores, adding Les Carmes Haut-Brion to your collection won’t be something you regret. They’ve released -60% in volume compared to 2023, so fans should jump at the opportunity now.
“Seamless and silky in the glass, with superb balance, the 2024 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is one of the wines of the vintage. All the elements are so well balanced, always a sign of a superior vintage at this address” - 95-97 Points - Antonio Galloni
Les Carmes Haut-Brion is one of Bordeaux’s most exciting and distinctive estates—a true insider’s wine. Located just outside central Bordeaux in Pessac-Léognan, it’s the only estate within city limits and boasts a unique terroir of deep gravel and iron-rich clay. Under winemaker Guillaume Pouthier, Les Carmes has become known for its daring, elegant wines made with whole-bunch fermentation and minimal intervention. The results are singular, perfumed, and expressive—modern Bordeaux with unmistakable identity and finesse.
Les Carmes Haut-Brion 2024 is one of the most thrilling wines of the vintage—an intricate, finely sculpted Pauillac with true individuality. Blending 48% Cabernet Franc, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon and 23% Merlot, it offers soaring aromatics of mulberry, herbs and crushed flowers. With 52% whole-bunch fermentation and élevage in amphora, foudres, and oak, the wine shimmers with elegance and energy. Layers of red and black fruit, spice and graphite unfold in a long, savoury, endlessly fascinating finish.
Les Carmes Haut-Brion 2024 transcend the vintage with high praise from all the wine critics. We’ve collated the full reviews for you below. With a release price of €70.40 In Bond per bottle, Les Carmes has got the balance right with a -20% reduction in price compared to 2023.
Grab your allocation whilst you still can, this is always a hot release.
Les Carmes Haut-Brion 2024
€70.40* In Bond per bottle
95-97 Points | Vinous - Antonio Galloni
Seamless and silky in the glass, with superb balance, the 2024 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is one of the wines of the vintage. All the elements are so well balanced, always a sign of a superior vintage at this address. Floral notes, spice, leather and mocha run through a core of layered, beautifully persistent dark red fruit. Harvest took place between September 17 and 25, during one of the rare windows with little rain. As always, Les Carmes is done with a high percentage of stems (52%), specifically 100% for the Cabernet Franc, 50% for the Merlot and 20% for the Cabernet Sauvignon. Aging is 70% new oak barrels, 19% 18HL foudre and 11% amphora. New oak is already very nicely integrated, another sign of a superb vintage. The 2024 is a brilliant effort by the team led by Technical Director Olivier Pouthier. Drinking Window: 2034 - 2054
95-97 Points | The Wine Independent
Deep garnet-purple colored. Slowly unfurls to reveal classic Franc notes of red currant jelly, fresh blackberries, and pencil shavings, followed by hints of rose oil, fragrant soil, and crushed rocks. The light to medium-bodied palate shimmers with electric red and black berry flavors, framed by firm, grainy tannins and bold freshness, finishing on a lingering ferrous note. Nice!
97-98 Points | James Suckling
This is always an idiosyncratic wine. This year it’s stunning, with a unique floral aspect and excellent depth of pure blue fruit, mulberries, dried herbs and white pepper. So juicy and mouthwatering on the palate, with a medium to full body and fine tannins. There is a crystalized mouthfeel, but the tannins are fresh and well knit. This is already delicious, which indicates its superb balance. 48% cabernet franc, 29% cabernet sauvignon and 23% merlot
94-97 Points | Jeb Dunnuck
The 2024 Château Carmes Haut-Brion comes from 7.8 hectares of vines in the heart of Pessac and is 48% Cabernet Franc, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the balance 23% Merlot that was vinified with 52% whole clusters and will spend two years in 70% new barrels as well as smaller portions in vats and amphora. It's one of the darker-hued wines in the vintage and has a terrific nose of ripe black fruits, smoky earth, violets, crushed stone, and hints of lead pencil. It's medium to full-bodied, has ultra-fine tannins, a layered, seamless mouthfeel, and a great finish. I think it's clearly one of the top wines in the vintage.
94-96 Points | Vinous - Neal Martin
The 2024 Les Carmes Haut-Brion contains more Cabernet Franc at 48% of the blend. Picked between September 17 and 27 using 52% whole bunch, this is aged in 70% new barrels, 19% new foudres and 11% amphora. This has impressive fruit concentration on the nose with redcurrant and blackberry fruit, hints of cassis and a dab of dark chocolate. Fine delineation. After time, there is something that nods to the Northern Rhône without losing typicité. The palate is medium-bodied and fresh with fine tannins, a subtle pepperiness imparted by the whole bunches and a tingle of pain d'épices towards the finish. Very harmonious and very delicious, this should provide 20 to 25 years of drinking pleasure. 13.2% abv.
*Prices are accurate as of the blog publication date and may be subject to change.