Best Vintage since 1994. 2000 Vintage will be remembered for the immense concentration of its wines and for the small quantities produced. Osborne is rich, concentrated and impressive with intense ripe berry fruit.

Wine Enthusiast 90 Points:

“This house was one of only a few that declared ’95 a vintage year, but the proof is in the bottle: the decision was a good one. There’s tons of stuffing and structure here, and it’s just starting to come around to show defined plum, licorice and coffee flavors. It’s a tad hot on the finish, but that should fade if given another 10 years in the cellar.”

Robert Parker 96 Points:

“The massive 1994 is unquestionably the finest Dow I have tasted since the 1977. This opaque purple-colored wine is not as developed or flamboyant as Fonseca, but it is super-concentrated and multi-layered, with huge masses of fruit and some tannin in the finish.

This is a slightly drier style than Fonseca or Graham's, but it appears to be a classic, majestic, enormously constituted 1994 that should age effortlessly for three decades or more. It is one of the stars of the vintage.”