2000 Chateau Leoville Poyferre Saint-Julien 750 ml

Monumental 2000 Bordeaux With Perfect Provenance

We have secured a precious 10 cases of 2000 Léoville Poyferré coming direct from the cellars in Saint-Julien — in perfect condition and provenance at a venerable 17 years old. Here’s your chance to secure mint-condition, perfectly-aged bottles of Parker’s 97-point 2000 Poyferré, which the venerable critic called “brilliant” and “fabulous,” and “the plushest, most ostentatious and dramatic of all the Leovilles.” Drinking beautifully today and not to be missed by serious Bordeaux collectors.

The 2000 vintage in Bordeaux left Robert Parker gobsmacked. He called it ''a phenomenal year that might turn out to be one of the greatest vintages that Bordeaux has ever produced,” raving about “some of the most immense, black-colored, concentrated, powerful, and tannic wines of the last thirty years.” In 2000, the “Super Second” Growth estate Château Léoville Poyferré, which Parker called “one of the best two wines of Saint-Julien,” earned 97 points from the venerable critic, who called it “the plushest, most ostentatious and dramatic of all the Leovilles in 2000… a head-turning, prodigious wine.” At 17 years old don’t wait to pull the cork on at least one now to experience the greatness of classically aged Bordeaux, drinking beautifully today.

The year 2000 smiled with special grace upon Pomerol, Saint-Émilion, Graves, and Saint-Julien. While Pomerol’s Château Petrus ($4,500/bottle) remains, by critical consensus, the wine of the vintage, the astounding Léoville Poyferré might be the most surprising, offering even greater opulence and richness than its equally illustrious neighbor, Léoville Las-Cases. Thanks to massive investments by Didier Cuvelier, whose family has owned the estate since 1920, Léoville Poyferré has vaulted its reputation on the Left Bank, making some of the region’s glossiest and lushest reds.

Cuvelier’s vines benefit from well-draining Garonne gravel, planted in the priceless terroir of the Plateau, bordering on Las-Cases and a stone’s throw from Pichon Baron and L’Enclos de Latour. In pristine condition 17 years after the monumental harvest of 2000, this bottle continues to put on weight, showing off the intense concentration and age-worthy structure of one of the greatest vintages of the century.

Adam Lapierre MW