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• djhammond Likes this wine: 93 points

  July 6, 2023 - Tastd annually, this was a very seductive wine wine in its younger years packed with ripe fruit. It has become a little more challenging as it loses its fruit, and full secondary and early tertiary notes need to kick in to allow it to strut its stuff. That said, time in the glass really opens the wine up and tames residual tannin. Will revisit in a years time. 93+

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• aerosol Likes this wine: 89 points

  December 25, 2022 - Opened and decanted for an hour. The color is getting faint and reminiscent of a Pinot. After an hour open, the wine has a nose of raisin and that is recapitulated on the palate. There is slight amount of fruit with red cranberry, hint of oak and tobacco with resolved tannins. I was hoping for more because I love Gazin. We also opened a 99 Gazin and side by side, the 99 was much better.

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• Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 92 points

  November 12, 2022 - This wine still drinking very primary for my taste and I think well stored bottles have many years left to evolve more tertiary notes. More subdued on the nose than the 1998 VCC but similar red fruit on the palate, lean in style. Paired well with stuffed quail.

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• djhammond Likes this wine: 93 points

  September 20, 2022 - After few hits and misses over the last couple of years, this finally seems to have settled down and found its identity. Firmly in its drinking window, this is a good solid wine, but which will never set the world on fire. The nose wears its Pomerol identity on its arm with deep rich aromas of red berry fruits. The palate is integrated and the apple notes are now very apparent. The finish is deep and starts promisingly, but is disjointed and acrid towards the end. There is no real need to decant, and this should stay here for at least the next 5 years.

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• Cailles wrote: 93 points

  July 14, 2021 - Bordeaux 2000 - 20 Years On - 48 Reds: All tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) It´s a good vintage but not on par with more recent great vintages like 09/10/15/16. Why? A smaller group of top wines reaching lower highs and in general a tad less depth, purity and finesse. 2) Right bank is ready, the left bank still needs time to integrate and open up. 3) Not much tertiary aromas yet - peak drinking window at least 10 years away for most wines. 4) 2000 is a bit a cooler vintage which is great for the right bank (not too much ripeness). 5) Winners? Pomerol with the highest ratings. Le Pin (97+ pts) leading the pack for me (narrowly beating the consensus winner Pavie (97 pts).
  
  More information, top and worst 10 lists, appellation rankings, out- and underperformer from five participants in the story link. As always, in such tastings (lots of wines, not a lot of time per wine, not decanted) the ranking of wines/appellations might be more informative than the scores.
  
  TN: This wine performed exceptionally well in our group (3rd overall rank and 95.6 average score) but didn’t reach the same heights in my book. At first I found it very ripe, extracted and alcoholic (harsh but not so far off description of basically all the Gazin’s I’ve tasted in the past few years) but with time the wine calmed down revealing ripe dark fruit, less intrusive alcohol, tobacco, cola and earthy notes on the nose. Very light and soft with just some slightly angular tannins on the palate with a good freshness and lots of red fruits, toasty notes and some earthy notes and a medium+ finish driven by sweet red fruits. At first 88pts at best and in the end rather 93-94pts.
  
  Decanting: A short 30-60mins decant should do the job.
  
  Group average: 95.6 pts
  Group rank: 3rd out of 48

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2000
• Type Red
• Producer Château Gazin
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation Pomerol
• UPC Codes 3700114600307, 3700114601267

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• In Cellars 814 (65%)
• Consumed 440 (35%)

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