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Red
2000 Château Rauzan-Gassies
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- Bordeaux
- Médoc
- Margaux
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Community Tasting Notes 122
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pilatus88 Likes this wine: 94 points
January 1, 2024 - Very elegant and mature in texture and body. Lovely.
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broadband013 wrote: 94 points
December 20, 2023 - Splendide!
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Vandelaar Likes this wine: 93 points
December 16, 2023 - Been cellaring this wine for over a decade and tonight, the kids are (finally) asleep, prepared a winter meal and its time to pull the cork.
2 hrs decant.
Intense Margaux perfume with underneath the delicate red fruits loads of wood fire, rose petals, iron and cigar boxes.
Palate of summer forest floor, black tea, rosehip, prunes and dried strawberries. Gently drying tannines guide you to a smooth long finish.
A lovely Margaux from clearly a different era with only 12,5% abv and more focus on refined delicacy. -
Lype Likes this wine:
December 1, 2023 - Bouquet filled with earthy notes, cassis and ripe fruit. The medium palate is ready from the get go, ripe in a classic way, cedar, cassis, graphite and leafiness. Fragrant flavors, which I associate with the Margaux appellation but this time not at fore front, more at back but still there. Fresh acidity and resolved tannins. Long finish with salty licorice. More complex and a notch up from the recently tasted excellent Priure Lichine of the same year. This is simply great and at the peak of its powers. One of the highlights of this year, especially considering the QPR.
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Teast Likes this wine: 93 points
November 15, 2023 - Decanted for about an hour. Beautiful color. Still going strong
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
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By Richard Jennings
5/22/2004 (link) 90 points(Château Rauzan-Gassies) Roasted fruit nose; tight but tasty, coffee, olive palate; medium finish 90+ pts.
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By Richard Jennings
1/16/2004 (link) 88 points(Château Rauzan-Gassies) Vanilla, vegetal and coffee nose; oaky, coffee flavored palate with soft tannins; short-medium finish
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By Richard Jennings
3/19/2003 (link) 89 points(Château Rauzan-Gassies) Tight, black fruit nose; black fruit, tobacco palate with balance; medium finish (40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot)
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By Richard Jennings
3/7/2003 (link) 90 points(Château Rauzan-Gassies) Well balanced, cassis palate with soft tannins and high notes; medium finish (good drinking now)
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2000
- Type Red
- Producer Château Rauzan-Gassies
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- SubRegion Médoc
- Appellation Margaux
- UPC Codes 071570014889, 071570014896, 3511060079082
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 27 (1%)
- In Cellars 1,046 (57%)
- Consumed 765 (42%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
duck, game, lamb, liver, meat, roasted, steak, stewWho Likes This Wine
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- VarietyRed Bordeaux Blend
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- SubRegionMédoc
- AppellationMargaux
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