2000 Château Rauzan-Gassies

Best ever from this estate. Fabulous aromas of blackberries and ripe currants. Full-bodied, with super well-integrated tannins and a long, long finish. An excellent quality wine.

Author: James Suckling

Lightweight nose. Loose. Slack. What does this property think it?s doing? (To be fair, socks have been pulled up a bit here since 2000.) Yields were obviously far too high.

Author: Jancis Robinson

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 and concentrated, with high tannin and loads of extract, this is a serious, broodingly backward, high class offering for patient connoisseurs.

Author: Robert Parker