2000 Château Margaux

Red Bordeaux Blend

PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 98 points

May 10, 2018 - Château Margaux vertical dinner (Taberna Del Alabardero): Should a point score reflect current drinking or future? For this wine, the high score is more for drinking in about five years time, for an early drinking window. And it may be conservative, as this could turn out to be 100 points, for all you point whores! Whatever the case may be, this was the star of this next flight of 2000-2001-2006. Obviously superior grip than the 1999, which was the wine we enjoyed just before. Like the 1999, it displayed bergamot and floral aspects, but even here they are more focused and more intense than the 1999. The underlying tannin is indeed serious but more refined as that from the 1995, for example. Indeed, this gets the same high score as the 1996, but it is different from the 1996 in the sense that it may end up with a larger scale, more breadth, even if it may not ever match the cool fruit aspect of the 1996: both are top wines, but for different reasons. The 2000 has the power of the 1986, for example, but far more potential "Margaux" charm. Pity that it has gotten so bloody expensive!

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Mark1npt commented:

5/10/18, 5:55 PM - Hi.....I was fortunate to have the '96 a few times last fall while in Bordeaux. It was absolutely fantastic. I have one of these 2000 in my chiller. I'm thinking it may be the wine I drink on my deathbed. I just turned 60. Gotta believe it needs a lot more time? Mark
PanosKakaviatos commented:

5/11/18, 3:26 PM - Sure, the 1996 has loads of time ahead of it. But it is in a fine early drinking window already. And prices for these wines have indeed become crazy in any case.
Mark1npt commented:

5/11/18, 3:38 PM - Yes, the prices are too crazy for me to even think about buying any more of them. It's a shame.