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| Tradename：Chateau Léoville-Las-Cases 2000 |
| Item No.：FBSJ008 |
| Grape Varieties：Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot |
| Classification：2nd Growth 1855 St Julien |
| Appellation：Saint-Julien |
| Alcohol：13% |
| Specification：750ml |
| Decanting time： |
Original Bottle：2.5 hours |
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Decanter：1.5 hours |
| Scores： |
Robert Parker：99
Wine Spectator：100
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| Tasting Note： |
Wine Advocate#146(4/2003) Rating: 99 Points Drink: 2012-2040
This wine has put on weight and, as impressive as it was from cask, it is even more brilliant from bottle. Only 35% of the crop made it into the 2000 Leoville Las Cases, a blend of 76.8% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.4% Merlot, and 8.8% Cabernet Franc. The wine is truly profound, with an opaque purple color and a tight but promising nose of vanilla, sweet cherry liqueur, black currants, and licorice in a dense, full-bodied, almost painfully rich, intense style with no hard edges. This seamless classic builds in the mouth, with a finish that lasts over 60 seconds. Still primary, yet extraordinarily pure, this compelling wine, which continues to build flavor intensity and exhibit additional layers of texture, is a tour de force in winemaking and certainly one of the great Leoville Las Cases. In another sense, it symbolizes / pays homage to proprietor Michel Delon, who passed away in 2000. Michel has been succeeded by his son, Jean-Hubert, another perfectionist. -Robert Parker
Wine Spectator(3/31/2003)Score: 100
Absolutely fantastic. This is one of the most exciting young reds I have tasted in a long, long time. It shows intense aromas of berries, currants and minerals, with hints of mint. Full-bodied and packed with fruit and tannins, its long finish is refined and silky. A benchmark for the vintage. Las Cases has always wanted to make first-growth quality in a top-notch vintage, and it certainly did in 2000. Best after 2012. 15,000 cases made. –JS
Decanter Rating：
Really magnificent colour, very intense extraction of fruit with the Cabernet showing perfect ripeness, wonderful fruit and superb tannins. Difficult to imagine a better Las Cases, superb expression and very great length. Ready 2010-2050. (tasted en prime) |
| Food Match： |
Western Food:Great with roast beef, rich coq au vin and mature cheeses(Edam, Gouda), Lamb, Game, Ham, Rabbit in mustard sauce
Chinese Food:Roasted duck, goose and pigeonneau, salted shrimp and crab, air-dried and smoked meat, idwsi, sautéed fish, steamed Guangdong pork, braised dongpo pork, Nanjing stewed duck in sauce, braised chicken in red wine, fried kidney, fat roast pork, gemischter roasted chicken.
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