2000 Chateau Lynch Bages Grand Cru Classe Pauillac [WA97][WE95][JD95][WS96]

Producer: Chateau Lynch-Bages  Region: Pauillac, Bordeaux, France Blend: Bordeaux Red Blend Year: 2000    97 points Wine Advocate "Beginning to open magnificently, the still dense purple-colored 2000 reveals a blossoming bouquet of blackberries, cassis, graphite and pen ink. Full-bodied with velvety tannins that have resolved themselves beautifully over the last eleven years, this wine is still an adolescent, but it exhibits admirable purity, texture, mouthfeel and power combined with elegance. (RP)" (8/2011) 96 points Wine Spectator "This has a dense but well-defined core of currant and fig paste flavors supported by a gorgeous graphite spine. Long and authoritative, with notes of bay, pepper, leather and juniper slowly emerging on the finish. Terrific structure and integration give this a chiseled feel. No rush here. *Highly Recommended* (JM, Web-2016) " (6/2016) 95 points Jeb Dunnuck "Finally rounding the corner, the 2000 Château Lynch-Bages is mature, with classic Pauillac darker c