2000 Château Saint-Pierre

Community Tasting Notes (60) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  1/12/2024 - englishman's claret wrote: 86 Points

  The 2000 Saint-Pierre shows its best with a few minutes in the decanter, its boysenberry fruit waning with air. At its debut, the toasty, cedary, slightly smoky, leathery profile is superficially appealing but many of its components are brett-derived and there doesn't seem to be much personality or depth underneath that. Revisiting this the following morning, most of the brett has blown off but the underlying fruit hasn't expanded.

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  2/12/2023 - NY Wino Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Still holding in very nicely. Nice nose of spicy dark fruit, good fruit and acidity with smooth tannins. Very good value.

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  10/22/2020 - NY Wino Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Deep dark purple color with a big nose of cedar, tobacco and some smoke with dark fruit. Recanted and really took 4-5 hours before this wine really opened up. Worth the wait...ripe but mellow tannins with slightly plummy fruit and lots of graphite and a very nice long cedar/cigar box finish. Glad I started drinking it with a NY strip as it needed some food to accompany it, but the wine became increasingly more approachable as the night progressed. Still think there is plenty of time to drink this wine...2020 is not a good end date...at least another 5-10 years to go here.

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  5/13/2020 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Second of a case. Decanted for several hours. Still almost totally opaque black in colour with hints of red at the edge. Thick legs. Nose is warm typical St. Julien cedar shingles with tightly-coiled primary fruit in the background... still very young. Palate is more rounded and approachable than expected and the tannins have integrated quite well... but this is still quite brooding and monolithic. I would re-visit in 3-5 years unless you like your Claret young and austere (I have amended the CT 'drink by' date to 2030).

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  4/18/2020 - gzim wrote: flawed

  Nose showed some cork, on the palate you could still appreciate the round ripe fruit

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