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Chateau Les Carmes Haut Brion 2025 [Bordeaux En Primeur]
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Note: This is a Bordeaux Futures item. Estimated Arrival Fall 2028. However, you'll never get a better price on this great vintage of Bordeaux.
*Price does not include possible tariffs. Tariffs will be collected on arrival if we have to pay them - we are hopeful that they will no longer be in affect by 2028*
Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion 2025 — Pessac-Léognan
Score references: Vinous 96–98, Decanter 97, Neal Martin 95–97.
Les Carmes Haut-Brion is one of the most distinctive wines in Bordeaux, and 2025 looks like another exceptional vintage. The blend is Cabernet Franc-led, with significant whole-cluster use, and the resulting wine is aromatic, spicy, mineral, and highly individual. Expect dark fruit, florals, graphite, spice, savory herbs, and a lifted, almost Burgundian sense of perfume. This is not conventional Bordeaux, and that is exactly why we love it. For collectors who want Bordeaux with energy, identity, and modern elegance, Les Carmes is a must.
How futures work: Many great chateaux of Bordeaux release a portion of wines from the latest vintage in the spring after harvest. Critics and other industry players flock to Bordeaux in April for barrel tastings to score the wines and judge the vintage as a whole. We are offered wines as they release prices over the next couple of months knowing that these won't arrive for 2+ years after we order them. However, once the wines release the prices will usually be much higher.
As a retail shop we have to pay a few months after we order these wines, so we offer the bottles for sale to help fund that payment, and in exchange we take a very low margin. When the wines arrive the purchasers have the benefit of owning bottles which will age for decades at a great price. And any bottles which were not purchased from us go into our inventory where we are able to charge higher margin thanks to the futures price being so low.
TLDR: You pay for wines 2 years before you get them, but there'll never be a lower price.
We ship wine to most states with a $100 minimum order for shipping. We don't ship spirits nor beer.
Weather shipping advisory: Orders placed during times of extreme heat or extreme cold will be held for no charge until more favorable weather returns.
The Bordeaux wine region, an emblem of vinicultural prestige, is bisected by the Gironde Estuary into the Left and Right Banks, each celebrated for distinct styles shaped by their unique terroirs. The Left Bank is renowned for its structured, Cabernet Sauvignon-led blends, while the Right Bank favors the softer, Merlot-dominated wines. This region is also the birthplace of the luscious, sweet wines of Sauternes. Bordeaux's time-honored blend and winemaking techniques have inspired countless wine regions around the globe, setting a benchmark for the wine world.
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Cabernet Franc is a black-skinned grape variety primarily known for its contribution to the complex, savory bouquets of Bordeaux blends, and it thrives as a varietal wine in the Loire Valley, France. It often presents a lighter body with floral and herbaceous notes, complemented by a distinctively crisp acidity and a texture that speaks to its Loire Valley terroir, where the moderate climate and diverse soils amplify its elegance and aromatic complexity.
