Carruades de Lafite 2000

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Reviewed by: Robert M. Parker, Jr.

A brilliant second wine, the 2000 Carruades de Lafite (51.4% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42.3% Merlot, 4.9% Cabernet Franc, and 1.4% Petit Verdot), aged in 10-15% new French oak, shows wonderfully sweet lead pencil shavings intermixed with an elegant black cherry and cassis nose. A wine of tremendous purity, medium body, and the tell-tale Lafite elegance, this is a gorgeous wine to drink now and over the next 12-15 years.

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Reviewed by: Robert M. Parker, Jr.

A candidate for the finest Carruades de Lafite ever made, the 2000 (a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, and 5% Cabernet Franc) is deep, fat, plush, and layered with concentration and depth. Anticipated maturity: 2004-2020.

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Reviewed by: Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The 2000 Carruades de Lafite, a blend of 51.4% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42.3% Merlot, and the rest Petit Verdot, reveals some of the same elegant, finesse-like character as well as notes of minerals, pencil shavings, cherries, wet stones, and subtle oak. Medium-bodied, stylish, and streamlined, it will be drinkable between 2003-2016.

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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer

Bright ruby-red. Perfumed aromas of cassis, violet, bitter chocolate and licorice. Tightly wound, intensely flavored and on the lean side, with extremely primary flavors of cassis and dark chocolate. Not showing its flesh today, but this has good underlying density and pliancy. Finishes with toothdusting, fine tannins.