Reserved in character, at close to 24 years old, the wine doesn’t offer the flamboyant character the best vintages of Mouton provides. Instead, you find a more austere, classic rendition of Pauillac with a focus on its...

Red and black fruit, truffle, chalky minerality, and floral nuances all emerge from the 2000 Château Canon, with ripe tobacco and graphite driving the aromatics. It's not as expressive or exotic as the 2001, but it's...

Aromatically, the 2000 Bonnes Mares bursts with spices and blackberries. Notes of cedar are intermingled with spiced coffee cake, chocolate-covered cherries, and blackberries in its generous, delectable personality. This...

A full-bodied red with soft and silky tannins that gives the wine definition and brightness. Savory and fresh. Beautiful now.

The 2000 La Dame de Montrose would embarrass plenty of grands vins from this vintage, offering up aromas of sweet cassis, rich soil tones and black truffle, followed by a medium to full-bodied, layered and seamless...

Finally rounding the corner, the 2000 Château Lynch-Bages is mature, with classic Pauillac darker currants, lead pencil, tobacco leaf, and spice-laced aromatics. With a deep plum color and slight lightening at the edges...

I struggled to love this wine when DP 2000 was released, and although this Champagne has aged with some finesse, there is still a hollowness to this wine (slightly unripe?). The vegetal fruit of youth has become spicier...

Cassis, spice, chocolate, truffle, and floral notes all emerge from the 2000 Château Péby Faugères, a gorgeous, absolute tour de force in world-class Merlot. On the palate, it's full-bodied, deep, rich, and textured, with...

The finest wine I have tasted from this estate in over four decades, this dense purple-colored 2000 offers up a sweet perfume of black cherry liqueur intermixed with cassis, graphite, licorice, and incense. Full-bodied...