Chateau Barde-Haut 2000, St Emilion GCC

We tasted 2000 Barde-Haute many years ago and have not re-tasted it since. By GCC standards, it is a simple, ripe, and balanced wine. The structure is almost perfect, with fine, ample tannins. Scores for this wine/vintage is well accorded and a host of writers write well on this wine such as:

93 points Jeb Dunnuck

I loved the 2000 Château Barde-Haut. It offers a mature, complex bouquet of blackcurrants, toasted spice, tobacco, and leather with a medium to full-bodied, beautifully balanced style on the palate. While fully mature and drinking at this point, it should easily evolve for another 7-8 years. It's a beautiful wine. (3/2020, edited)

92 points Wine Advocate

A great sleeper, this fully mature wine, made by Helene Garcin, has loads of deep raspberry and black cherry fruit with hints of liquorice, toasty oak, and a spice box. It is plush, succulent, and indulgent, yet at the same time complex. I loved their 1998, and this wine has also turned out well. (RP) (6/2010; edited)

92 points The Wine Independent

The 2000 Barde Haut is deep garnet coloured with a hint of brick. It leaps with warm blackberries, stewed plums, fruitcake scents, and dried herbs and tobacco wafts. Medium-bodied, it is elegant and refreshing with evolved, plush tannins and a long, minerally finish. (LPB) (1/2023, Edited)

91 points Int'l Wine Cellar

Good medium ruby-red. Explosive Nose combines cherry liqueur, woodsmoke, flowers and smoke. Sweet, fat and pliant but juicy and aromatic. It has the inner-mouth aromatic complexity and complete flavour development one would expect from a cool site that benefitted from a hot growing season and harvest. It is a very sexy wine, finishing with big, palate-dusting tannins and excellent length. (6/2003; edited)

Wine Spectator

Many crushed berry, flower and vanilla aromas follow through to a medium-bodied palate with fine tannins and a balanced finish. (JS) (3/2003; Edited)