2000 Château Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Bordeaux France Wine Tasting Note

Still young, yet it is impossible not to be awed by the wine. Intense, concentrated, complex, and filled with smoked, red fruits, charred wood, tar, spice, forest leaves, spice, and a farmers market of red berries, this is long, rich, mouth-coating and attention-seeking. At 24 years of age, this is only starting to display its greatness. Drink from 2024-2075.

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Elegant, refined, regal and harmonious, the wine takes a while to unfurl, allowing to experience its beauty. But once it gets going, the sensual experience is almost off the charts. The smoky fruit builds in intensity. The tannins are silky. There is length, complexity and purity. While a pleasure to drink today with a few hours of decanting, another 5-10 years will add a lot to this wine.

Just a super wine that is close to leaving its adolescent period, but not quite ready for prime-time drinking yet. This has everything you want in a wine. It is rich, concentrated, silky, full bodied and complex on the nose and palate. The palate presence is off the hook, as is the long finish. This should offer pleasure for 30-40 more years with ease.

Almost inky in color, from the hue alone, you know this is a special wine. The smoke filled, cigar box nose, with all its tobacco, black and dark red fruits and wet earth delivers intensity, depth, opulent textures and a finish that is pure silk and velvet. Cleary this is still young. But it is impossible not to see the makings of greatness in this wine.

This is going to be one of the great wines from the already legendary vintage with another decade of age. Powerful, yet refined, concentrated and pure, the tannins are silky, there is freshness, complexity and that unmistakable smoky fruit that you cannot find in any other wine. I am happy to have a few bottles tucked away for future drinking.

Silky, velvet textured tannins, ripe, fresh, sweet, lively fruits with purity in their essence and a tobacco, cigar box, smoke and earthy tint is available from the get go. With 3 hours of air, the wine really came around. This is a quintessential example of the elegance and refinement found in a great Bordeaux. I'd probably hold the wine for at least another 5 years before popping a cork. If you cannot wait, and I can't blame you if had to open a bottle, give it a few hours of air.

This is all about the potential as this is so young and primary. It's fresh, vibrant, concentrated and deep. Clearly, there is the structure to age for at least 50 years or more! There is length, texture and balance, but it demands another 5-10 more years of age before it shows what it's really made of.

If the nose doesn't grab you, you do not like the smell of graet Bordeaux. This is fresh, soft, refined and most importantly, elegant. Still young, the wine demands another decade to continue to soften and develop.

With the texture of polished silk and velvet, this elegant, subtle and supple wine is everything a great wine should be. It combines sophistication with elegance to produce what is developing into bottled decadence. Still young, if you are looking for secondary aromas, hold off another decade. This just keeps getting better and better.

Filled with tobacco, tar, cassis, black fruit, herbs and caramel scents. Soft, round, elegant, harmonious, concentrated, fresh and refined. The wine is pure silk and velvet with a lot of polish and finesse in the long finish.