2000 Château Montrose

Community Tasting Notes (328) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  4/20/2024 - Tree512 wrote: 95 Points

  Much more ready than the last bottle. Medium bodied and extremely long and complete. Very much like 1989 at the same point in its evolution. Nice.

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  4/18/2024 - liber wrote: 91 Points

  1st of 36, opened 90 minutes then decanted 90 minutes, perfect cork and level - very dark ruby, quite transparent, youthful robe; more black plum than cassis, some mineral and smoke, quite dense and unlayered presenting more as a simple right banker; full, round and caressing, ok length, persistence and concentration, sweetish mid palate with hint of tannic structure on exit, but as yet too monolithic and simple and without the breed and layering I'd have expected, so I'm left confused, could go either way though I suspect it needs more time to come together properly so long as there really is proper tannic underpinning which I believe was just detectable, if so much upside, 30+ years. But for now a tentative F (17.5).

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  4/6/2024 - Drinkslogger Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Drank over 4 hours. The wine only started to open after 2 hours passed. Very good structure and palate, nose is very beautiful, taste is still a bit closed like a flower that has not fully bloomed. A very well made wine. My friend and I both agreed that we should wait 5 more years before opening the next bottle. 93 points now but has the potential to be a 96-98 pointer. This wine should continue to drink well for the next 20 years.

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  3/31/2024 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Decanted a couple hours and this was on fire. Could have decanted for longer as this only got better over dinner. Cigar, leather, pencil lead, dark and red fruits, great complexity and balance. For me, 00 BDX is now early into the window. Younger vintages like 03 and 05 are still a way off. This 00 was riding the line of primary and just starting to show some secondary nuance. Long, long way to go here.

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  2/25/2024 - Jake Barnes wrote: flawed

  One of five purchased at a cellar sale and opened for some friends, along with a 2012 Leoville Poyferre and 2000 de Fieuzal.
  
  Decanted 1.5 hours and followed for 3 hours. Clearly there was something wrong with this bottle. It was still impenetrably dark and youthful looking in the decanter, but it was very flat on the nose and palate with a lot of barnyard. The barnyard cleared up a little over time, but nothing much appeared to take its place.
  
  All in all, there was not much tannin and not much fruit—not much of anything, really. One taster detected a little of the barnyard but said it was nothing serious and liked this bottle very much. Another taster thought it quite tannic. But for me, this was a terrible showing and definitely flawed. I’ve had corked bottles that showed very muted like this… I have four more bottles. Hopefully, the others are better. 12.5% ABV (flawed; no score)

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