Château Laffitte Carcasset

The year of the winegrower.
Beautiful summer days were interspersed with rainy days bringing mildew and botrytis pressure. Viticultural practices played a key role in ensuring a high-quality vintage. August was fairly dry, with a great deal of sunshine at the end of the month.
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2020 ranks among the great vintages.
It is the perfect example of Bordeaux know-how : a sunny but fresh vintage, with minerality and tension and a promising aging potential.
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The beautiful series of vintages ending in "9".
The 2019 vintage is deeply colored, fresh and balanced. With a precise and concentrated style, the wines completes the beautiful series of vintages ending in "9".
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2018 is a sunny and demanding vintage.
After a mild but rainy spring, marked by strong mildew pressure, the lasting sunshine saved the vintage. The hot summer temperatures have benefited the beautiful clayey gravel soils, which are particularly favoured in dry years.
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The 2017 vintage is one of the earliest in history.
The mild temperatures favours the budburst of the vine in February, but at the end of April the cold returns. The frost caused major damage in the Bordeaux region. Protected by the proximity of the river and its terroirs in plateaux and hills, Saint-Estèphe is spared.
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2016 is a great vintage at Château Laffitte Carcasset.
The wine develops aromas of black fruits and red plums with cedar notes. Pleasant tannins In the mouth melted with a nice woody texture. It is an harmonious wine revealing a very beautiful concentration.
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A good vintage.
The wines are fresh, concentrated and have good acidity. The 2015 vintage started with a very homogeneous flowering followed by very sunny months of June and July, among the hottest in a century. The skins of the grapes hardened, the tannins became concentrated.
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Saint-Estèphe, star of the vintage.
The beginning of the year was mild and humid, which favored budburst in good conditions. In spite of a contrasted spring and summer, the flowering was fast and homogeneous, the maturation of the grapes continued until September and October marked by a dry weather and an exceptional sunshine.
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The year of all challenges.
The year of all challenges. The vintage was marked by a lot of rain, which forced the winegrowers to be very reactive. Finally, the good weather returned in July and August. September is mild. 2013 is a fresh, fruity and harmonious wine.
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All's well that ends well.
A mild winter in January, then a particularly cold February. Spring was rainy, flowering was slow. Summer came at the end of July, August was very sunny and dry, and the grape veraison took place in good conditions.
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