2000 Château Cantemerle

Community Tasting Notes (453) Avg Score: 89.9 points

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  3/20/2024 - up4wine wrote: 91 Points

  An oldie, but a goodie. A bit of green that blew off and a little of the earthy and smokey I generally associate with Cantemerle.

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  1/25/2024 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This bottle was lovely. 60 minute decant. Beautiful soft tertiary fungal flavors and farmyard smells. Seemed to be at a peak. I drank through a half case of this vintage years ago, and it was never this great in its youthful primary phase. If you've kept bottles this long, I hope you strike magic like we did tonight.

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  1/13/2024 - Araldinho Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Medium deep brick red.
  Aromas of cedar, blackcurrant jam, ripe plum, tobacco, scorched earth and mint.
  Dry sanded tannins. Blackcurrant acids and black tea bitterness.
  Palate of cassis, sloe, leather, cloves, cardamom, black pepper, black coffee and autumn leaf.
  A rather mature, rustic and one-dimensional medoc with fading black fruit, coffee and peppery aromas and a tight, slightly dry finish. Drink within 3 years. Tasted 2024.
  Tasted alongside Tignanello 1995 and the matched wine was vital, complex and more generous than the present wine.

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  10/27/2023 - The Wine Monkeys Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Funk. Barnyard and more funk. For the first hour it just lingered. Pretty tight and tannic upon opening with the fruit being very reluctant to reveal itself.
  
  Poured a 1/2 glass, aerated and decanted the rest. At around the 1 hour mark, the funk was gone, revealing clean earth, mushroom, and green pepper on the nose. The palate showed tart red cherry, spice, excellent structure, round and integrated tannins, and full-body. Definitely give this some time. Highly recommend a decant to let it unfold.

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  10/20/2023 - Dale M wrote: 91 Points

  P&P. While not the most profound Bord that has past my way lately, it could well be the most relaxed and comfy claret in recent memory. Mature, but still with crisp acidity and gentle, caressing cassis fruit, lots damp soil, great balance and precision. Perfect with one pot sage stuffing and chicken thighs.

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