2000 Château Montrose

Community Tasting Notes (326) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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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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  2/23/2024 - jeff nowak Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted, drunk over 3 hours. Shared with my wine group, and universally praised. For me, the best I’ve tasted from this chateau. Fully integrated tannins, but this has plenty in the tank. I liked the merlot component because I sometimes find this wine a bit stiff. Not tonight.

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  12/25/2023 - tropa56 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Excellent Montrose. 2000 is maybe my favorite BDX vintage. Opened for 2 hours+ but did not decant. 3rd wine of xmas dinner. Was tight still when initially poured but opened up with air. Very beautiful wine with a lot of life ahead of it. If I had more bottles, I would wait to drink them. Lots of spice, black and red fruits with typical St. Estephe stoney minerality. Close second to the 2011 Sassicaia on the day, but this will outlive it for sure and still has potential upside. This Montrose is actually relatively affordable compared to vintages like 2005, 2009, and 2010.

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