2000 Château Palmer

Community Tasting Notes (225) Avg Score: 94.0 points

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  5/10/2024 - drjb Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Private Dinner, The Brisbane Club. This wine opened beautifully with a persistent deep crimson colour and a scented nose of blackcurrant, blueberry, dark cherry, violets and cedar. The palate reflects the aromatics of the nose with a spherical impression of rich fruits and floral notes balanced by a long fine spine of gossamer tannins and persistent touches of cedar and dark chocolate. There is lovely purity and balance here with that touch of opulent merlot that makes the best Palmers so desirable and individual.

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  4/18/2024 - melzar wrote: 92 Points

  This bottle did not perform as well as the one I had last July. Bottle variation or taster variation? Nose seemed more muted than I remember.

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  4/13/2024 - jmoon wrote: 91 Points

  A bit of a disappointment to be honest as I love Palmer and great vintages like 2000 should be an absolute whopper. But this started off with nice promising dark birdeaux classic cassis and earth flavours but never went anywhere, just twisted and turned and got a little more classic and old school over time, I could never find energy or oomph, in the bottle anyway. Don’t shoot me but ended up splashing a bit of crunchy cru Beaujolais into it to add some life and then it jumped up a few points.

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  3/29/2024 - Fuel55 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Tasted blind. Took a while to open up and straight itself out - on open it almost had Chambolle character then later a little La Chapelle fruitiness and femininity - then about 90 minutes righted itself to clearly being a Margaux from a solid vintage. Red and blue fruits, touch of cedar, beautiful tannin structure and incredible length. Really enjoyable.

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  3/24/2024 - The_Cat wrote: 96 Points

  Deep garnet red. Complex cherry berry tobacco cigar box and sweet spices full bodied with soft tannins. At its apogee but no hurry needed.

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