2000 Château Tour St Bonnet

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 85.3 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View phynes's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/24/2023 - phynes wrote: 87 Points

  Enjoyed a bottle over dinner. Very smooth and easy to drink although the fruit has faded and it would be viewed by most as over the hill.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View blanquito's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/3/2016 - blanquito wrote:

  Another delicious bottle of this, my last one... Savory, graphite, terrific green tobacco scents, dry impact, some leatheriness, cedar, sour cherry. Light, bright and long. Fully mature, happy trails old friend.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View blanquito's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/29/2013 - blanquito wrote: 90 Points

  This is lovely. Old-school, this sort of wine should be an object lesson for wine makers on how light-bodied wines make for beguiling aromatics, and if possessing good acidity like this 2000 TSB, plently of life without lots of extract. That all said, this is also the kind of wine Bordeaux sceptics would hate given its herby bouquet of basil-thyme-mint and semi-austere earthiness. I love it, could be my favorite $10 bottle of wine out there. Ths cru bourgeois is in a good place right now, with the herby notes starting to show some claret cedar. The palate has a surprisingly full texture, some good sweetness, but overall this is all about red berries and brightness, with a hint of sour orange and a distinctive finishing note of olive oil. Make no mistake, this wine is on the lighter and leaner end of the fruit spectrum, and is the better for it. There's still plenty of tannin on the finish, but this is probably at peak.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View bobbylion's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/14/2012 - bobbylion Likes this wine: 92 Points

  i have to revise my last years rating. this is lovely and for 5 euros simply fantastc. my last one

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View blanquito's profile
  • Report Issue

  10/21/2011 - blanquito wrote: 89 Points

  Since the 1990 vintage, a go-to petit chateau for me in strong vintages. The 2000 is very nice, with a lovely red-fruited perfume that's a clear expression of old-school claret. Nothing OTT or spoofed here, just a well-made wine (very clean, no brett as in some older vintages) from an excellent vintage. Like the Poujeaux, the palate is mostly about elegance and balance with food-friendly acidity, and perhaps a bit more stuffing would improve the wine, but at $12 for a classy claret, who's bitchin'? My favorite of the quartet by a hair over Potensac. Parker once called this a poor man's Grand Puy Lacoste, and I have to agree. Drinking well now.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

View all 24 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.