2000 Chateau Leoville Poyferre 2nd Growth St. Julien (3 x Magnum)

France Bordeaux St. Julien

The plushest, most ostentatious and dramatic of all the Leovilles in 2000, this wine is already sumptuous, displaying some nuances in its huge nose of vanilla bean, black chocolate, jammy black cherries, cassis, and graphite in a flamboyant style. Opulent, savory, rich, and full-bodied, it is a head-turning, prodigious wine and a complete contrast to the extracted behemoth of Leoville Barton and the backward, classic Leoville Las Cases. The Poyferre’s low acidity, sweet tannin and an already gorgeous mouthfeel make it a wine to drink now as well as over the next 25 or more years.

2000 Chateau Leoville Poyferre 2nd Growth St. Julien (3 x Magnum)

The plushest, most ostentatious and dramatic of all the Leovilles in 2000, this wine is already sumptuous, displaying some nuances in its huge nose of vanilla bean, black chocolate, jammy black cherries, cassis, and graphite in a flamboyant style. Opulent, savory, rich, and full-bodied, it is a head-turning, prodigious wine and a complete contrast to the extracted behemoth of Leoville Barton and the backward, classic Leoville Las Cases. The Poyferre’s low acidity, sweet tannin and an already gorgeous mouthfeel make it a wine to drink now as well as over the next 25 or more years.

France Bordeaux St. Julien
Producer Chateau Leoville Poyferre
Sub-Region St. Julien
Region Bordeaux
Country France
Grape Variety Bordeaux Blend
Vintage 2000
Colour Red
ABV 13.00%

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Inside Bordeaux

Olive tapenade, leather, black tea, liquorice, alongside ripe blackberry fruits that remain generous at 21 years old. There are plenty of fine but firm tannins and after a stubborn start the vintage is finally starting to relax and open up. As you settle in, the sweet fruit falls away to allow a complex addition of licking salinity with crushed stones and slate texture, with remnants of the toasted oak that it was aged in giving a smoky seductive finish. Ready to drink with a short decanting. Harvest September 26 to October 10. This was Isabelle Davin’s first year as technical director, with Michel Rolland consultant since 1996. Blending at the end of ageing at the time (through to 2005). 80% new oak.

95 Points / Drinking 2021 - 2030

By Jane Anson / September 2021

Vinous

The 2000 Léoville Poyferré is a vintage that I have not tasted for some time. It has a sense of warmth – coziness, even – on the nose, which offers red brambly fruit, kirsch, ash and fireside hearth aromas. The palate is smooth on the entry, supple and rounded, and more mature than expected, showing overt secondary notes of sage, thyme and spice. Moderate in length and with satisfying freshness, this Poyferré may well be à point at 19 years of age and does not quite reach the heights that I imagined. Tasted at the château.

92 Points / Drinking 2019 - 2030

By Neal Martin / December 2019

Vinous

The 2000 Léoville Poyferré has a lovely bouquet of brambly red berry fruit, orange peel, sandalwood, ash and a touch of peppermint. Maybe there is just a tiny smidgen of brettanomyces. The palate is medium-bodied and approaching full maturity, with grainy tannins, meat juices, sage, thyme and light white peppery notes surfacing with aeration. There is a straightforwardness to this Saint-Julien that I like, and it has the substance and balance to give another 20 years of drinking pleasure.

92 Points / Drinking 2021 - 2040

By Neal Martin / September 2021

Vinous

The 2000 Léoville-Poyferré was poured blind at Medlar restaurant, though it was pretty easy to single out. This bottle is slightly higher-toned than the previous, black fruit, melted tar and a touch of roasted chestnut, maybe displaying just a touch more Brettanomyces. The palate is medium-bodied with good depth and concentration, white pepper and thyme lending more complexity towards the finish. It does not possess the precision that has defined recent vintages, yet it has an almost bucolic charm and the substance to suggest it will give another two decades of drinking pleasure. Tasted at Medlar in London.

92 Points / Drinking 2022 - 2042

By Neal Martin / September 2022

Vinous

Ruby-red. Floral, highly perfumed nose of cassis, violet and mint. Intensely flavored and penetrating, but elegant more than particularly fleshy. Still, this tightly wound, serious wine boasts very good volume and plenty of incipient complexity. Not yet showing much oak influence, despite the fact that 80% of the barrels are new. A highly promising showing.

90-93 Points

By Stephen Tanzer / May 2001

Vinous

Good full medium ruby. Superripe, exotic aromas of crystallized red and black fruits, prune, minerals and vanillin oak. Sweet, fat and ripe, with enough acidity for balance but less complexity today than the ’01 displays. Chewy tannins seem less fine than those of the 2001. This has plenty of size and material but comes across as less harmonious today.

89-92 Points

By Stephen Tanzer / May 2002

Vinous

Good full medium ruby. Subdued, slightly roasted nose combines cassis, cherry and chocolate mint. Chocolatey-sweet but less deep and expressive than the ’02 and ’01. Offers good currant and cherry flavors but seems a bit dry-edged and medicinal for a 2000, without quite the harmony of components of the subsequent vintages here.

90 Points

By Stephen Tanzer / May 2003