Personally, if you don't have good storage, I'd either:
check out what the '99 that's available is, as a rule it's an earlier drinking
vintage.
with some good wines (and some bad ones)
or
look for some cheaper lesser (Haut-Medoc, Medoc, or right bank satellite
appelations) 2000 Bdx that are more ready to drink (though most could use a few
years, they're pleasant now with some decanting):
Coufran , Canon de Brem, Lanessan (previously mentioned), Ste.Colombe,
Epicurea de Ch. Martinet, are a few that come to mind, or lesser seconds like
Sarget de Gruaud-Larose, Les Fiefs de Lagrange.

Lots of the classed wines (and seconds of the big boys) are really closing down
now, not best way to get a view. At a recent horizontal even with being
decanted an average of 7 hours earlier, some were still tight.


Dale

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