2000 Château Canon-la-Gaffelière

Community Tasting Notes (206) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  3/12/2024 - lepetitchateau wrote: 87 Points

  Stewy and overripe...

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  3/8/2024 - djhammond Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Now into my second case, this delivers consistently. For myself, this is by far the greatest vintage produced by the estate, with only the 1990 coming anywhere near. As with a few of the right bankers from 2000, this has been in its peak drinking window for the last 5 years, but with a structure that should keep it at this level for at least another decade. Tasted blind, you would swear it was a top Pomerol. It is liquid velvet with a deeply seductive nose of ripe red berry fruits underpinned with floral notes. The depth and balance on the palate are faultless, and if the finish was longer, it would merit another point. This, and the Bellevue are my favourite St.Emilions from 2000, and among the best priced, and great value for money.

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  2/16/2024 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:

  Audozed three hours and it was just right. I wasn't so much a fan of this RB wine on release, but time has been kind to it. Lovely melange of currants, tobacco, forest, soil, etc. A confident medium>medium+ body with good structure, fresh acids, etc. Should continue to hold and will certainly develop some more tertiary character. Fun to revisit all these years later. Enjoy now or in the coming decade depending on your preferences. highly recommended

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  1/20/2024 - JonathanFlavell Likes this wine:

  Deep garnet, nose of black cherry, black plum, blackberry, blackcurrant, raspberry, redcurrant, leather, smoke, toast, coffee, chocolate & tobacco. Good weight, strong acidity, ripe and juicy tannings.To taste black cherry, red cherry, raspberry, strawberry, blackcurrant, black pepper, spice, cedar, toast, smoke, leather, meat & coffee. Long. Outstanding. Super balance, lots of intensity, complexity and definition. In a great place with fruit still very present, but plenty of other complexity. Ready to go depending on your taste preferences, with plenty of time in hand.

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  12/2/2023 - Stufonhead Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Quick decant and on to it. Quite complex but on the rustic side. Certainly well kept bottle but based on prior notes this bottle may have aged quicker than others'. We'll see with the next bottle but I'm prob gonna open it within the next year to correctly project my other bottles.

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