![]() Hosting The Fine Wine Experience vertical tastings in the mid-2000s, the fresh-to-market 2000 vintage was often the youngest wine we tasted. But the thing about this vintage that I really haven’t seen anything like it in my lifetime is, the quality goes very, very deep, to really, you know, wines that - you know, estates, will cost under $10 a bottle that are delicious –” They can’t afford it, they don’t get enough money for their wine. … sometimes in some vintages, the top châteaux, because of the strict selection, because they have a lot of money, can sort of skim off the cream of their production, and only put 30 or 40 percent of their production into the bottle, so that they have the best wine, but the smaller châteaux can’t do that. “But when you have a top vintage, like you’ve had in 2000, the quality of the wines across the board is really the best I’ve ever seen. On primetime TV, this is what Parker had to say: In 2001, while the wines were still in barrel and offered en primeur, Parker appeared on 60 Minutes, and Charlie Rose. Then came along the 2000 vintage, and I recall that it was one that caught the imagination of a wider audience, such was the hype surrounding it. Robert Parker was at the peak of his market-influencing dominance at that time, and so too were the wines of Bordeaux. I began buying wines and organizing tastings in the mid-1990s. My thoughts on the vintage, the wines, with tasting notes and scores follow. That’s what we found at The Fine Wine Experience 2000 Bordeaux Dinner I hosted at Duddell’s in Hong Kong this week. A little more than 20 years since the harvest, top-level red Bordeaux from the 2000 vintage shows high quality, richness, freshness and balance aligned to classic moderate weight, and eminent drinkability. ![]()
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