Grand Cru Classé Haut-Médoc AOC - Château La Tour Carnet

With Château La Tour Carnet Grand Cru Classé Haut-Médoc comes a first-class red wine in the wine glass. In this, it presents a wonderfully bright, crimson color. Held at a slight angle, the red wine glass reveals a charming garnet red hue at the rims. To the nose, this Château La Tour Carnet red wine shows all manner of black cherries, plums, prunes and morello cherries. As if that wasn't already impressive, cinnamon, black tea and dark chocolate join the mix due to the aging in small wooden barrels.

This dry red wine from Château La Tour Carnet is ideal for purists who would prefer 0.0 grams of residual sugar in the wine. On the palate, the texture of this well-balanced red wine is wonderfully dense and weighty. Finally, the finish of this very ageable red wine from the Bordeaux wine region, more precisely from Haut-Médoc, captivates with exceptional persistence.

Vinification of the Grand Cru Classé Haut-Médoc from Château La Tour Carnet

The basis for the balanced Grand Cru Classé Haut-Médoc from Bordeaux are grapes from the grape varieties Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. After the hand harvest, the grapes are quickly taken to the press house. Here they are selected and carefully crushed. Fermentation then takes place in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperatures. After the end of fermentation, the Grand Cru Classé Haut-Médoc is aged for another 18 months in oak barrels.

Food recommendation for the Grand Cru Classé Haut-Médoc from Château La Tour Carnet

Enjoy this red wine from France ideally tempered at 15 - 18°C as an accompanying wine to plum jam, roasted calf's liver with apples, onions and balsamic vinegar sauce or duck breast with sugar snap peas.

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