Lafite Rothschild - Pauillac 2000 (12 pack bottles)
Price: $22800.00
| Producer | Lafite Rothschild |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2000 |
| Sku | 3695 |
| Size | 12 pack bottles |
James Suckling: 100 Points
"The nose is fresh bright and dense. With aromas of violets minerals spices cool stones mint dark fruits and plum skins this is beautiful. Very much still a baby right now it needs much more time. This is a wine for the next generation. Finesse and elegance truly a wine that makes you contemplate life. This is not about power there is really nothing like it. 93% Cabernet Sauvignon. Do not even think about touching this for another ten years 2020. 15+25+25+35. Find the wine"
Vinous: 98 Points
The 2000 Lafite-Rothschild is utterly sublime. Delicate sensual and wonderfully nuanced the 2000 is majestic. The purity of the fruit is simply striking.
Wine Spectator: 98 Points
This is remarkably young with a deep well of succulent black currant fig and blackberry fruit notes that feel 10 years younger than most peers carried by wave upon wave of velvety tannins. Despite the density and heft there's glorious length and finesse too with alluring black tea smoldering charcoal and warm paving stone notes just starting to emerge. Awesome wine.?Blind 2000 Bordeaux retrospective (December 2015). Best from 2018 through 2043. 18000 cases made.
Wine Advocate: 98+ Points
Since I gave this wine a perfect score I suppose some could see this as a downgrade. I found everything still there for a perfect rating but I was just struck by how tight and backward the wine was. A blend of 93.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Merlot the wine still has a dark ruby/purple color and an extraordinarily youthful nose of graphite black currants sweet unsmoked cigar tobacco and flowers. The wine is rich medium to full-bodied but has that ethereal elegance and purity that is always Lafite. I originally predicted that it would first reach maturity in 2011 but I would push that back by 5-7 years now although it has 50-60 years of life in front of it. Owners of this beauty are probably best advised to forget it for 5 years. Tasted next to a 1996 several days after the 2000 tasting the 1996 which is a perfect wine was far closer to full maturity than the 2000.
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