Bordeaux 2000 Vintage

[winecollector]

Just a heads up guys. One of the members of our Wednesday night tastings recently returned from Bordeaux, and tells us that everyone over there is very excited about the 2000 vintage. He reports that the year started out very cool and wet till at least the end of either June or July, like 50 degree temperatures, and then ended up extremely hot and dry, 100 degree temps. for the remaining growing season. The Cabernet grapes really thrived in the exceptionally hot weather, and the vines produced small, concentrated and overly ripe berries. Also, everyone completed their harvest before the rains came in October. They are saying it will be the best vintage in ten years, across the board, for the big guns, as well as for the lower classifications. The 2000 vintage should provide us with some very approachable wine while young, and yet have the backbone to age and last as well. I know I am looking forward to it. Start saving now guys!

[winoweenie]

Sounds like the 82 vitage. WW

[Botafogo]

>>Sounds like the 82 vitage. WW<<

Does that mean then that they taste like California wines like the 82s???? But seriously, Robert Parker was given an HOUR on Charlie Rose the other night to begin the run-up in prices and they even showed the owner of Sherry-Lehman gloating about how "if Parker likes them, prices go up and that's a good thing"....

[Thomas]

Sixty Minutes also gave Bob an opportunity to raise prices. A retailer told me that the day after the piece ran last Sunday he received phone calls for Bordeaux from the 2000 vintage. He told everyone who called that he sold out the 2000 but he is taking future orders on the 2002 vintage, which Parker secretly predicted to him will be the one to watch for the century.

[winoweenie]

That's what it sounds like to me Boto-baby. asI've said many trimes on the board, my buying of the 82 bordeauxs was undoubtedly predicated on the fact them suckers were like my BELOVED Caif's. Howm-so-ebberly, if'n you recall, with the exchange rate a buck went a whale of a LOOOOOOONG ways to purchasing them dudes. WW