voici l'opinion du critique anglais:

Three years on, it is time to put aside the millenium hype and ask ourselves the question: how good are the 2000s reds? Is it, as some have claimed, the best ever because there is a larger quantity of good wines than ever before?

My feeling, having tasted the wines noted on the following pages over three days in January 2004, was more one of frustration than satisfaction: exasperation, that, as usual, the majority of the wines were no more than good, rather than joy at the fact that the usual suspects all the first growths except Mouton-Rothschild, all the super-seconds save Pichon- Longueville, Comtesse de Lalande have produced lovely wines.

There are some splendid 2000s. What is sad is that there are so few, though in general the wines at Bourgeois and petit chteau level are more than satisfactory. Where the vintage disappoints is in the middle, properties with classed growth terroir who fail, year in, year out, even given the weather advantages of 2000, to produce classed growth wine.'

A summary of the best wines

Wines of the vintage: Lafite & Latour.

Very fine indeed - Mdoc/Graves: Ducru-Beaucaillou; Haut-Brion; Leoville-Barton; Leoville-Las-Cases; Margaux; Palmer.
St Emilion/Pomerol: Ausone; Cheval-Blanc; LEvangile; Petrus.

Very fine - Mdoc/Graves: Grand-Puy-Lacoste; La Mission Haut-Brion.
St Emilion/Pomerol: Angelus; LEglise-Clinet; Trotanoy; Vieux-Chteau-Certan.

Good value - Mdoc/Graves: DAurilhac; Bouscaut (Graves); Les Carmes Haut-Brion (Graves) Caronne Sainte-Gemme (Haut-Mdoc); Coufran (Haut-Mdoc); Chasse-Spleen (Moulis); Domaine de Chevalier (Graves); DEscurac; Ferrire (Margaux); Labgorce-Zd (Margaux); Latour-Martillac (Graves); Talbot (Saint-Julien); Pontet-Canet (Saint-Julien); De Pez (Saint-Estphe)
St Emilion/Pomerol: Berliquet (Saint-milion); Bertineau St. Vincent (Lalande de Pomerol); Canon de Brem (Fronsac); La Croix Canon (Fronsac); Les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol); Dalem (Fronsac); La Fleur de Bouard (Lalande de Pomerol); La Grave--Pomerol (Pomerol); Fontenil (Fronsac); La Sergue (Lalande de Pomerol); La Serre (Saint-Emilion).

Disappointments: Mouton-Rothschild; Pavie, Pichon-Longueville-Lalande.

Déceptions: Mouton-Rothschild, Pavie, Pichon-Longueville-Lalande.

Ceci est relativement consistant avec les résultats de Winemega:

Mouton-Rothschild: 92.38 (v.s 95 pour Latour et 95.08 pour Lafite en relatif)
Pavie: 89.85 - un bon score, mais loin de celui de Parker..
Pichon-Longueville-Lalande: 88.55 - soit presque 7 points de moins que son voisin Latour..!

A noter cependant que Coates a d'habitude un petit biais négatif pour certains domaines (comme Mouton). Il n'aime pas trop les vins "Parkerisés" et de façon générale, préfère les médocains aux libournais. Mais dans ce cas précis, ses appréciations semblent corroborer celles de la moyenne d'autres dégustateurs comme relevé plus haut.

Alain

Finalement, les magnums de Mouton, il vaut mieux les acheter vides (aaa)

Didier