Grand Champion... and stuff on a rock." - unknown
The 2000 Chateau Lagrange (3rd Growth, St. Julien) is beautiful... Most of the time the hype doesn't match up to the reality. Not with the 2000 Bordeaux. These wines are incredibly concentrated - but exceptionally well-balanced. Still just babies. This was a half-bottle, decanted for 3 -4 hours. Coffee, graphite, cigar box, wet tobacco leaves, sweet black currants, ripe black cherries and plums. Beautiful mouthfeel - great balance and structure. Tannins nice and ripe, but still very prodigeous. Wonderful wine... give it another 5 years in 1/2 bottle (!)... 10 in full. The 2001 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Echezeaux continues to be one of my favorite wines. It's starting to loose some of its weight, but what it's loosing in power, it's gaining in elegance and finesse - two somewhat uncommon traits for a "lowly" Echezeaux. Sweet wild strawberries, clove, cinnamon, all-spice, black turned earth, dried leaves... just a beauty. The nose is amazing... continues my belief in the terroir-driven style of the 2001 vintage. The 1996 Gaja Sperss (Serralunga d'Alba, Barolo) continues to be one of my favorite wines... pure Barolo with its rose-petaled sweet red plums, dried earth and powerful tannins. Again... one of the most impressive Sperss i've ever tasted. I was literally without words last night when I tried it. That says it.
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