Chateau Carbonnieux Pessac-Leognan Rouge 2018 PURYEARSALE While most Champagne houses rely

While most Champagne houses rely heavily on reserves to ensure consistency year after year

This is mid-weight

though it really wants a few more years

a long submerged-cap maceration

The 2015 Merlot from Elyse captures that intensity—hand-harvested fruit fermented in small lots and aged in French oak to deliver dark fruit

Chateau Carbonnieux Pessac-Leognan Rouge 2018 PURYEARSALE While most Champagne houses relyOne of Graves' great chteaux, with vines planted on the region's famous deep gravels. Carbonnieux Rouge is Cabernet Sauvignon led, classically Pessac in profile fine tannins, freshness, integrated oak, and what we'd call luxury without weight. 2018 in Pessac Lognan was a powerful, structured vintage: this is the denser, more brooding face of Carbonnieux, with dark fruit, gravel, and a real spine of Cabernet. Notably, the chteau itself recommends