2000 Château Gruaud Larose Sarget de Gruaud Larose

Community Tasting Notes (140) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  1/20/2024 - Shugs_Claret wrote: 91 Points

  Mixed berry fruit, leaning more to the red spectrum with currant and cherry. Surprisingly still quite young, full of fruit. Velvety tannins and quite persistent. Splash decant at a restaurant. Lovely spot but no hurry.

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  7/25/2023 - WojteG Likes this wine: 90 Points

  According to the WA Vintage Guide: year 2000 in St.Julien was extraordinary. Wines are still tannic, youthful or slow to mature.96 pts!
  
  Let's see if this is true.
  Sarget is the second wine of Chateau Gruaud -Larose.
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  90 minutes in the decanter.
  Smell? A lot of smoke! Hmmm. Earth, herbs,black cherry, blackberry, plum, milk chocolate. A touch of tobacco. All of them are from 23 years, cheap, second tier wine! Let's see what it can bring to my mouth and brain. First of all: acidity and tannins are here.
  They are soft of course, but visible. Taste - not so great like the smell, but still enjoyable.( 2-3 years too late?). Sweet profile with black cherry, blackberry, plum and milk chocolate
  Also cranberry and red currant. Weird. No spice at finish. Velvety texture.
  I think the wine lost its structure and balance.
  Despite that it's still highly drinkable.
  Third glass and of course you know what I will say... the wine is much better now.
  The smell is the same, but the taste is much sweeter with nicer acidity ( not so in first place), longer tannins with longer finish with spice, mostly cinnamon.
  And red cherry from beginning to the end.
  WS -91

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  7/22/2023 - The Wine Monkeys wrote: 85 Points

  This bottle seemed past its prime and well into the downslope. On the bland acidic side, not much fruit or much of anything left. 2 more in the cellar and hoping for a better showing.

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  7/8/2023 - SoundinBetween wrote:

  From half bottle. Earth, red fruit, ample acidity and supple body with full resolved tannin, this was very nice today and shows very much as is expected for a 2nd wine from this St. Julien estate, bonus with some age. Drink up.

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  5/17/2023 - Jsnelten Does not like this wine: 84 Points

  Too old, dry, tannic, austere

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