2000 Château Clos St. Martin

Community Tasting Notes (45) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  9/5/2023 - Purple Tooth wrote: 93 Points

  I really think that "sensual" wines should be drank in the right environment. What is sensual? To me, its something that requires more senses than just your sense of taste. First and foremost its about the bouquet, and secondly its about what is left behind after each sip instead of what you taste on your tongue. As good wines age, they either make it to "sensual" or just don't. This is now in transition to sensual. Its losing the fruit and you have to patient with it. First, it needs to be drank at room temp, not cellar. Secondly, it needs a good 90 minute decant. Its got some nice earthiness to it, but as DQ so honestly said, it hasn't developed enough stinkyness. What makes this a HOLD is the finish. Its long, dry, and very persistent with a showing of dry red flowers. I'll call this in "in limbo" and will save my next bottle for 2 years or more...Drink or Hold

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  8/26/2023 - Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Really special bottle shared by Mark at the perfect time in its drinking window (see his note for prep details). This was nicely aged, a tiny bit of funk on the nose which I loved, plummy mature fruit. Gained weight and complexity as we had it open. I much preferred this to the ‘99 Blankiet we had open at the table, but I think I was the minority. I just love my old stinky Bordeaux. (Just kidding, this wasn’t that old or that stinky)

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  8/26/2023 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Cork was strong and tight with no saturation to speak of. Pnp'd into a decanter at 1:15pm and sampled, ultimately placed back into the bottle at 4:45pm to take to the restaurant for dinner, so a 3.5 hour decant overall. Prodigious sediment in the bottle which was washed out. Mid garnet color in the glass with a clear meniscus rim and just a hint of orange bricking over time to the wine in the glass. Nose of moderate barnyard that took all of 2-3 hours to blow off and with a few sets of swirling the decanter. Red/black fruit at first along with some sweet violets on the nose also. Palate initially of thin, tart, red cherry fruit. Balanced acidity and slightly gritty tannins. It definitely needed decanting for both sediment and aeration today. Taken to the restaurant at 5pm and enjoyed over 1.5-2 hours til gone. It definitely 'filled out' there. Deeper, darker, heavier but not big time heavy fruit. Nose continued to improve throughout dinner. Became a tad more complex/richer. The palate also paired well with the braised short rib. This one vacillated between a 92 and 94 on both the nose and palate for me, so averaging it out to a 93, also. Glad to share these two older bottles with good wine friends, but I think it was their time/destiny to leave the cellar, for this trip. It worked out to our benefit, all around.

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  5/20/2023 - JLCFan Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Balsamic, earth and dried fruit. Liquid rock minerality and extremely fresh, powerful structure. Extremely minty finish. Limestone and tertiary characteristics in the driver’s seat, fruit in the back. Delicious and intellectual.

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  3/25/2023 - djhammond Likes this wine: 95 Points

  I do worry about the aging potential of the right bank garagistas from the millennial vintage. Having punched way above their weight for the last decade, the receding fruit seems to have left the wine overexposed to the tannin. I decided to leave half of this until the next day and it was utterly transforming, upping the rating by 3 points to 95 and totally negating my worries over aging. This probably needs a couple more years to allow the secondary notes to bed down, or if drinking now, give it 12+ hours in the decanter. 95+

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