2000 Vintage

[stevebody]

We had a tasting of eleven 2000 Bordeaux at Esquin in Seattle last week - at $40 a person. The wines ranged in price from $32 a bottle up to $235 per. Our customers who attended were seriously underwhelmed. One guy who is a VP at Starbucks, right down the block from us, said, when I asked him what he thought, "These are old folks' wines."

I actually thought that the wines were more interesting than any of thge past four vintages and a bit larger across the board. As hard as we primped for this thing, it was a huge disappointment, since these were people who have many thousands of Bordeauxes in lockers in our storage area. I know what the press is on the vintage but that's wine writers. Buyer beware, as always. This may well wind up being a controversial vintage.