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2000 Chateau Haut-Brion (750ml)
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QUANTITY AVAILABLE: 1
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Vintage: 2000
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Chateau Haut-Brion
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Designation:
Appellation: Pessac-Leognan
Producer: Chateau Haut-Brion
Varietal: Red Bordeaux Blend
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
Sub-Region: Graves
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Tasting note: Full red-ruby. Roasted plum, currant, tobacco and minerals on the nose. Compellingly dense and thick but almost miraculously lively and light on its feet. Has a texture like liquid velvet, coating the entire palate. Wonderfully unmanipulated wine, with perfectly integrated acids giving it superb subtle vinosity and thrust. Finishes with outstanding building persistence, with the substantial tannins perfectly supported by the wine's fat middle. (96pts, Steven Tanzer)
Tasted: May/Jun. 2003
Score: 96
Drink: N/A
Tasting note: A compelling nose of roasted herbs, scorched earth, sweet blueberries, plums, black currants, and a hint of graphite is followed by a deep, layered, sumptuously textured, full-bodied Haut-Brion, but one with extraordinary complexity. This wine seems more evolved and approachable than I had expected it to be at age 10. (99pts, Robert Parker)
Tasted: Jun. 2010
Score: 99
Drink: 2010-50
Tasting note: Beautiful tobacco, berry, cedar and plum aromas in this one. Full-bodied, yet very fine and reserved, with silky tannins and a medium finish. I still prefer the 1998, but this is very, very fine indeed. An Haut-Brion with lots of finesse. (94pts, JS, Wine Spectator)
Tasted: Mar. 31, 2003
Score: 94
Drink: After 2010
Tasting note: Colour Deep red. Vivid. Beautiful. Intense. Nose Clean. Intense. Fresh. Delicate. Subtle. Very fruity. After swirling Clean. Very intense. Fresh. Fruity. Touches of caramel and cherry. The nose varies between fresh fruit and riper notes. Vanilla. Blackberry. Violet. Liquorice. Palate A superb, ample, juicy first taste full of pulp, which develops into a caressing sensation on the palate and is very full in the middle-mouth. A slow, very flavoursome and fresh development on a very tightly-knit grain of tannin, with a wonderful length full of fruit. What is astonishing is the sensation of the attack: it is proportionally more intense than the finish. (95pts, Jean-Marc Quarin)
Tasted: Jan. 2001
Score: 95
Drink: N/A
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