2001 Wine

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: (WA96-98 points) A prodigious effort the 2001 Tirant is a 9000-bottle cuvee made from 30% Grenache (90-100 years old) 25% Carignan (90-100 years old) 25% young vine Cabernet Sauvignon 10% Syrah and 10% Merlot. Fermented...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2001 Chateauneuf du Pape is a beauty! Classic and textbook in style, with ample cured meats, earth, herbs and mature currant and blackberry fruit, it flows onto the palate with full-bodied richness, a gorgeous texture...

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: What a perfumed, elegant, structured wine, with all the elements of fruit, wood, tannins just in the right place. It shows great tannins, powerful black and red berry fruits, denseness, and a classic, fresh aftertaste.

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, 94 points: Tasted blind at Bordeaux Index’s 10-Year On horizontal. This has a relatively light but feminine bouquet, earthy notes at first, later tightly coiled blackberry and cedar, briary and pencil box. The palate is...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 92 points: Dark ruby-red. Deep, inviting aromas of sappy berry liqueur and truffle. Lush, silky and sweet, with expressive flavors of blackberry, currant, truffle and chocolate nicely framed by harmonious acidity. The most...

Wine Spectator, 99 points: This sports serious heft, with a core of brooding fig jam, ganache, Christmas pudding and pastis-soaked black currant notes, followed by a powerhouse finish of smoldering charcoal and tar. The feel is remarkably velvety...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The lovely 2001 San Leonardo is a wine in its adolescence phase. Its pedigree is cemented, but its future is still open to chance. This was an excellent vintage that saw pre-harvest rains and warm, dry weather once the...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: Year in and year out, Jaboulet’s top white is the Hermitage Chevalier de Sterimberg, which is aged in new oak for nine months prior to bottling. The 2001 (a blend of 35% Roussanne and 65% Marsanne) exhibits aromas of ripe...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: Smooth and sophisticated with complex graceful mocha espresso bean dried berry currant black cherry and plum woven together in an open-knit style that's deceptively deep and penetrating. At a perfect drinking intersection...

Burghound, 90 points: There is a slightly curious hint of lactic character that detracts slightly from the overall sense of purity though not so much as to render the almost fully mature aromas of secondary fruit and earth unpleasant. There is...

Decanter, 98 points: