2001 Bordeaux Blend Wine

Wine Spectator, 90 points: Elegant and spicy with blackberry and earth character. Medium- to full-bodied with silky tannins and a medium to long finish...

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: This wine possess great beauty, it is almost Burgundian with its soft tannins and sweet fruit. Pure class and finesse in this, it is round and thick, long and very yummy. No need to wait on this, pull the cork. This...

Wine Enthusiast, 97 points: “For me, this vintage is what makes Margaux special,” says Margaux winemaker Paul Pontallier. He is right: With its denseness, spice, flavors of black currants layered with dryness and fresh acidity, this is a huge and...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: First year and a hell of wine. Like Vintage Port. Perhaps slightly overdone but impressive. Full-bodied with loads of fruit and tannins. Mouthpuckering but outstanding. A modern interpretation of an ancient style of wine...

Wine Spectator, 91 points: Black cherries with fresh basil on the nose open to a full-bodied palate with velvety tannins and a medium finish. A solid wine with a good core of fruit and tannins. Best after 2008. 10000 cases made. –JS

Vinous, 97 points: The 2001 Lafite-Rothschild is a damn impressive follow-up to the 2000. It has a healthy garnet core, showing little sign of maturity. The bouquet offers blackberry, melted tar, cedar and a pinch of dried herbs that might...

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, 95 points: Tasted blind at Bordeaux Index’s 10-Year On horizontal. This has a very elegant bouquet with blackberry, briary, potter’s kiln and bacon fat with fine delineation and lift. The palate is medium-bodied with great freshness...

Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, 96 points: From magnum. Very concentrated. Very convincing. Solid lead-pencil character yet refined too. Long-term stuff with a notably dry finish. Mineral, dense and layered. Fabulously nuanced and persistent. 19/20

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, 90 points: Tasted blind at Bordeaux Index’s 10-Year On horizontal. This has a light nose of red-berried fruit, sandalwood and undergrowth. It might benefit from a little more delineation and vigour, developing aromas of cooked...

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, 95 points: Tasted blind at Bordeaux Index’s 10-Year On horizontal. This has a very deep garnet core. The nose is very broody and introspective with tightly coiled earthy black fruits, opening to offer limestone, graphite and cooked...