In Reply to: 2000 Bordeaux posted by Jim Cate on May 26, 2003 at 09:40:14:
Hi Jim, lafite, haut brion and margaux are all first growths, perhaps you meant the second wines of each? I've tasted a bunch of the '00 bordeaux and put a lot thru aeration experiments as well. I'm not sure where you live, but storage is of huge importance with these wines as many of them aren't going to be drinkable even 10 years from now. In your price range, I'd reccomend some of the second growths, namely ducru, gruaud, pichon baron, pichon lalande, leoville las cases, though most of these will take at least 15 years to even begin knocking on any drinking window. Some others worth grabbing would be lynch bages, priere lichine, clerc millon, cos d'estornel, rausan segla, cannon, pavie, figeac, clos de loratoire, and corbin. Again, I can't stress enough the importance of storing these correctly if you plan on drinking them 10-30 years from now. Also, many of the 2000s have reached silly prices and you may get a lot more value by buying '98 right banks and '96 left banks as they are still available on the shelves and at any auction for in many cases 30% of the same chateaus 2000 pricing. good luck
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