2000 Vergelegen Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  3/16/2017 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points

  Work Wine Tasting - Chablis & Claret (Home): Fully dense ruby. Nicely savoury blackcurrant leaf nose. Quite minerally and refined. Shows well in the company, in binary terms, Bordeaux rather than new world. Again, six years on from last tasting and this has evolved nicely. Still plenty of line but with a nice secondary development and minerally complexity around the core of nuanced fruit. Super. ****

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  3/22/2016 - drmarclevine Likes this wine: 94 Points

  What a wonderful surprise on a Tuesday night. Beautiful right out of the bottle. Pencil shavings with red currant. Lots of black cherry and milk chocolate in the mouth. Focused. Medium-long finish. Drying tannins. At peak. Could easily be mistaken for a quality Left Bank Bordeaux entering maturity. Wish I had more. Paired very well with burgers with shiitake mushrooms and hoisin sauce.

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  12/15/2011 - SimonG wrote:

  Work Wine Tasting - Vintage Pairs (Home): Deep colour. Blackcurrant leaf nose. Still quite tight and brooding. It's lost its primary fruit but it hasn't quite attained the secondary development one would be after - leave a while longer. Holds up very well after 48hours - a little more relaxed but still quite structured. ***(*)

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  9/25/2010 - achim_berg@icloud.com Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Nice fully bodied Cab. Good finish and worth cellaring for some more years. Much better than the 2001 Stark Condé that we had the same evening.

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  8/13/2010 - MRichman wrote:

  Round, full bodied fruit with some herb and some green pepper (Cab Franc?). Nutty, toasty tannins with a bit of acid and a long bitter walnut finish. Expansive and energetic. This is probably drinking at peak and will begin to decline, however not falling apart. If I had any more I would feel fine holding them another 3 years. This bottle I brought back from SA. Well worth it.
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