2000 La Fleur Morange

This is a property I first started watching very carefully with this vintage, and I have loved just about everything that has been produced. Dense ruby/purple, the wine is a modern style of St.-Emilion, with superb ripeness, lots of color, and rich, heady black fruits intermixed with some toasty oak, licorice, and spice. Its expansive, multi-dimensional mouthfeel is opulent, sumptuous, and just beginning to hit full maturity. Drink it over the next 20 years.

Deep, dark crimson with a little development at the rim. Not much nose but great intensity. Rather furry edges on the palate – not pure – though certainly with lots of meat and substance. Sweet start and the oak not too dominant. Acidity a little obvious on the palate and the finish is a bit sudden. Interesting if a little brutal but not fine. Imported into the UK by www.interestinwine.com (JR)

This is a property I first started watching very carefully with this vintage, and I have loved just about everything that has been produced. Dense ruby/purple, the wine is a modern style of St.-Emilion, with superb ripeness, lots of color, and rich, heady black fruits intermixed with some toasty oak, licorice, and spice. Its expansive, multi-dimensional mouthfeel is opulent, sumptuous, and just beginning to hit full maturity. Drink it over the next 20 years. Jun 2010, www.robertparker.com