2000 Château Lafite Rothschild

Community Tasting Notes (113) Avg Score: 95.9 points

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  3/8/2024 - Sean Tay Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Pronounced nose intensity with notes of leather, charr wood, mushroom, smoke, toast, flora, black fruits. Medium+ acidity and medium+ tannin. Tannin is integrated and not harsh. Did not decant. Decanting around 2-3 hours will improve mouthfeel. Drinking well now or can cellar. In its optimal drinking window and can last many years.

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  1/26/2024 - sdr Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Whole Lotta Lafite; 1/26/2024-1/27/2024 (Wine Watch, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): Very youthful and exuberant. Lots of red cherry and raspberry fruit, which is delicious. Somehow both very slightly hot on the finish yet gaining sweetness as well. No complexity yet. Nice acidity. I'm optimistic for the future but you can drink it now if you like fruit bombs, Bordeaux-style.

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  8/8/2023 - JPF16 wrote: 100 Points

  Absolutely one of the finest bordeaux ever.
  
  Top 3 wines I have ever had.
  
  Color was near perfection, just a slight hint of bricking on the edge, ruby with a solid core.
  Nose jumped out of the glass, magical mix of dark fruits and an almost perfumed nose,
  On the palate everything in balance and surprisingly fresh.
  Finish was sublime.

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  6/14/2023 - rocknroller wrote: 98 Points

  Commanderie de Bordeaux: 2000 Lafite, LLC, & Cos (The Minikahda Club, Mpls): Very dark red/purple color. Double decanted and then slow-O for 4 hours, recorked and then slow-O again for an hour before serving. Drank a glass plus over 2.5 hours. Wow, mesmerizing nose from the start; perfumed with succulent red and black fruits; cassis, blood orange, deep red raspberry, fine leather, mint, so much earth and damp forest floor. The palate is ultra layered, ripe cassis, raspberry, brambly fruit of the forest berries, ultra tangy, charcoal, earthy, pencil, exciting, and blissful in it harmony and textural giving. This also has a mineral posture to go along with its impressive fruit and polished tannins - a true stunner. Yes, this still shows a youthful vigor, and I fully expect this to hit 3 digits in time, but it is immensely impressive as it is. Ranking: WOTN '00 Lafite, #2 '00 LLC, #3 '00 Cos.

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  2/8/2023 - kenthecpa Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Decanted 2 hours.
  Beautiful nose with a long finish.
  A terrific birthday wine.

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