2000 Clos du Jaugueyron Margaux

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  9/8/2021 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  Dinner at Dear Margaret (Chicago, IL): You can look at this wine from two perspectives: 1. what Bordeaux would be like if you really dialled down all the new oak, or 2. what a good Loire red ought to taste like. This is a fairly delicate cabernet, with a silky red-fruited profile on the nose. Lots of acidity on the palate, and without the oak, you get a much thinner texture on the palate. Pleasant, but lacking in intensity and depth. Surprisingly fresh for its age.

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  11/30/2020 - blank blank wrote:

  Exceptionally impressive - fresh fruit, bright acidity, but the tobacco and graphite place it unmistakably on the left bank. Probably at peak, but livelier than a lot of new bottlings.

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  12/21/2019 - Julian Marshall wrote: 88 Points

  I was expecting a lot from this so it was disappointing. Vibrant redcurrant and cranberry flavours and a soft, velvety body, but no real follow-through and a rather narrow profile. Certainly worth drinking but not the uplifting experience I was hoping for.

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  9/14/2016 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Dinner with Keith at Table, Donkey and Stick (Chicago, IL): I'm not sure what this is, and as good as the 1995 Lynch Bages was, I preferred this bottle by a bit. Clearly red-fruited and light, with a wispy cranberry perfume that was simply marvelous. The palate doesn't quite fit the ripe mold of 2000, but that's not to say the fruit wasn't ripe. There's almost something Burgundian about the lightness of this wine. It's light and airy, and just dances across the palate with its crisp acids. I managed to track a bottle of this down after dinner (thanks, Phil, for the tip), and can't be more excited to revisit this very distinct Bordeaux.

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  2/6/2016 - VitisNovice Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The peak was within the first 1.5 hours, its expression was amazing. Nose of initial plum and stewed prune immediately gave way to minerals, woodsy earth, and graphite. The attack was all minerals, chalk, metalics, and forest floor, it was so round it is how I imagine eating silk. It literally stopped all thoughts but for a brief moment. Gorgeous expression. Long lingering finish, light on tannins but we'll structured, almost like a book, with each flavor perfectly encapsulated on each page with a new page showing a new flavor. Drink now, it feels as if it won't show for much longer.

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