2000 Château Gruaud Larose, St Julien, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (65%), Merlot (29%), Cabernet Franc (3%), Petit Verdot (2%), Malbec (1%)
Ready - mature (Drink 2008 - 2034)
Neal Martin
91/100
Jeb Dunnuck
92/100
Stephen Tanzer
93/100
Robert Parker
94/100
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
94/100
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2000 Château Gruaud Larose, St Julien, Bordeaux

Description

Fully mature (yet I'd say in the early stages of its drink window), the 2000 Château Gruaud Larose offers a ripe, powerful, medium to full-bodied style as well as lots of currant and darker fruits followed by cedarwood, tobacco, iron, and assorted meaty, spicy nuances. It's a rich, almost chunky effort with a great mid-palate, still present yet ripe tannins, and an excellent finish. It lacks some of the purity and precision of today's wines yet is a satisfying, rich, impressively textured Saint-Julien to drink over the coming 15-20 years.

Drink 2021 - 2041

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (April 2021)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2000
Maturity Ready - mature (2008 - 2034)
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (65%), Merlot (29%), Cabernet Franc (3%), Petit Verdot (2%), Malbec (1%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Gruaud-Larose

Critics reviews

Neal Martin 91/100

The 2000 Gruaud Larose is a vintage that I have not tasted for some ten years. It has a somehow sedate bouquet of dark red berry fruit, cola and tobacco scents, ever so slightly smudged with age. The mellow, soy-tinged palate is medium-bodied with soft tannins and fine acidity but maybe just a little sauvage on the ferrous, slightly bretty finish. I feel this had more pep several years ago.

Drink 2021 - 2035

Neal Martin, Vinous.com (Sep 2021)
Jeb Dunnuck 92/100

Fully mature yet I'd say in the early stages of its drink window), the 2000 Château Gruaud Larose offers a ripe, powerful, medium to full-bodied style as well as lots of currant and darker fruits followed by cedarwood, tobacco, iron, and assorted meaty, spicy nuances. It's a rich, almost chunky effort with a great mid-palate, still present yet ripe tannins, and an excellent finish. It lacks some of the purity and precision of today's wines yet is a satisfying, rich, impressively textured Saint-Julien to drink over the coming 15-20 years.

Drink 2021 - 2041

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (Apr 2021)
Stephen Tanzer 93/100

Bright ruby. Liqueur-like aromas of roasted black raspberry, leather and grilled nuts. Lush, sweet and thick, with an almost unctuous texture and terrific volume. It is a wine of compelling sweetness and chewiness, not to mention sheer mouth-filling size. It finishes with huge, broad, sweet tannins and lingering notes of blackcurrant, coffee and leather—classic, thoroughly ripe Gruaud-Larose.

There was no need to use the concentrators in 2002, said maitre de chai Philippe Carmagnac, and the estate took a light hand with the cold maceration. The wine was fermented at a slightly cooler temperature than normal, with a bit less strenuous pumping over the must, but the maceration time was long. 40% of the wine underwent its malolactic fermentation in new barriques, particularly the Cabernet.

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com (May 2003)
Robert Parker 94/100

A very strong effort for Gruaud Larose, possibly eclipsed by what they have done in 2009, this is a pure, full-bodied Gruaud Larose with plenty of new saddle leather, cedar wood, black currants, cherries, liquorice, and Provencal herbs. Spicy, earthy, full-bodied, and rich, it has hit its plateau of full maturity, where it should stay for another 20 or more years.

Drink 2010 - 2030

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (Jun 2010)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 94/100

Deep garnet colour. Ripe blackberry and dried plum aromas are joined by a slightly sweaty, hung-meat and leather character with musky nuances of damp forest floor. The full-bodied palate is laden with complex earth and warm, dark-fruit flavours supported by medium acidity and a medium+ level of velvety tannins—long finish.

Drink now to 2029

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (May 2009)

About this wine

Cabernet Sauvignon

The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
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Saint-Julien

Saint-Julien

St Julien is the smallest of the ‘Big Four’ Médoc communes although, without any First Growths, it is recognised to be the most consistent of the main communes with many châteaux turning out impressive wines year after year. The wines can be judged as much by texture as flavour, and there is a sleek, wholesome character to the best. At their very finest they combine Margaux’s elegance and refinement with Pauillac’s power and substance.
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Chateau Gruaud Larose

Château Gruaud-Larose is a 2ème Cru Classé property that produces one of St-Julien's most full-bodied and long-lived wines.
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