Author Archives: Sindy Leung
Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2006
Ratings By Robert Parker 89 Tasting Notes This is another estate that has been making better and better wine of late, and their 2006 displays a masculine, meaty style, with notes of garrigue, plum, earth, and lots of cassis and underbrush. Its complex set of aromatics is followed by a dense, medium to full-bodied wine… Read More »
Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2005
Ratings By Robert Parker 92 Tasting Notes Significantly better from bottle than it was from barrel, the 2005 Rauzan-Gassies appears to be the finest wine this estate has ever produced. Dense purple-hued with a beautiful perfume of camphor, creme de cassis, licorice, bay leaf, and incense, it is a full-bodied, stunningly concentrated, broad, rich Margaux… Read More »
Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2004
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes A dark plum/ruby color is followed by scents of plums, figs, earth, and dried herbs in this attractive, mid-weight 2004. Good depth, medium body, and a spicy, earthy character suggest it should be consumed over the next decade.(Wine Advocate #171 Jun 2007) By Robert Parker
Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2003
Ratings By Robert Parker 89 Tasting Notes This property is producing better and better wines, although consumers should not expect any home runs yet. The deep ruby/plum-hued, soft, round 2003 displays the vintage??s opulence along with sweet, savory, black cherry and cassis fruit, and hints of smoke, scorched earth, and burning embers. In spite of… Read More »
Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2002
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes For this vintage, this wine seems soft and evolved. Medium to dark ruby with an attractive, relatively mature nose of dried herbs, cedar, black cherries and currants, it is medium-bodied, cleanly made, and best drunk over the next 7-8 years.(Wine Advocate #158 Apr 2005) By Robert Parker
Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2001
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes From a property that seems to be improving, the dark ruby/purple-tinged 2001 offers copious amounts of cedar, spice box, black currant, and forest floor scents in its distinctively earthy personality. While delicate, it reveals cunning power underneath the subtle flavors. Medium-bodied and moderately tannic, it should be at… Read More »
Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2000
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes The finest wine I have tasted from this estate in over four decades, this dense purple-colored 2000 offers up a sweet perfume of black cherry liqueur intermixed with cassis, graphite, licorice, and incense. Full-bodied and concentrated, with high tannin and loads of extract, this is a serious, broodingly… Read More »
Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 1999
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes Licorice, black fruit, herb, earth, and wood aromas emerge from this moderately perfumed, medium-bodied Margaux. The wine displays fruit and ripeness as well as some tannin. It is a good effort from this under performer, who appears to be getting its act together. Drink it over the next… Read More »