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2016 Cos d'Estournel, St Estèphe, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
Not ready (Drink 2030 - 2076)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
100/100
Jancis Robinson MW
18/20
James Suckling
97-98/100
Jane Anson
97/100
Product: 20168004367

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Description

This is one of the best Cos d’Estournels we have tasted in recent years: a wine that has fine, precise concentration and yet a real elegance. It broods in the glass, very dark with an inky-purple colour. The nose has elements of pure cassis, small berries, dark fruit, cinnamon and a touch of anise. The palate is perfectly structured: everything is in balance including the oak, tannin and fruit. It finishes long with a pleasing, fresh attack building and building into a crescendo.

Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon 76%, Merlot 23%, Cabernet Franc 1%
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2016
Alcohol % 13.5%
Maturity Not ready (2030 - 2076)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Cos d'Estournel

Critics reviews

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 100/100
The 2016 Cos d'Estournel is blended of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc aged in 65% new and 35% two-year-old French oak for 15 months. Bottled in July 2018, it is deep garnet-purple colored and starts off a little closed and reticent, opening out slowly and seductively to reveal beautiful lilacs, rose hip tea, crushed stones and camphor nuances over a core of crème de cassis, kirsch, wild blueberries and mocha plus wafts of incense and wood smoke. The palate is simply electric, charged with an energy and depth of flavors that seem to defy the elegance and ethereal nature of its medium-bodied weight, featuring super ripe, densely pixelated tannins that firmly frame the myriad of fruit and floral sparks, finishing with epic length. Just. Magic.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, (Nov 2018)
Jancis Robinson MW 18/20
Energy and raciness on the nose. Gentle and lifted. And then lots of tannins underneath. Fresh almost sandy tannins. Good energy and tea-leaf sensation. Excellent freshness. Long. Restrained. Elegant.
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2017)
James Suckling 97-98/100
The finish is something else here. This is a wine that’s so powerful and tannic yet at the same time so polished and superb on the finish. Full-bodied, beautifully crafted and precise. This is a wine that really grabs your attention. The agility and power are more than impressive. Wow is the word.
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Jan 2017)
Jane Anson 97/100
This is one of the best Cos d'Estournels that I can remember trying at this early stage, it really does have every hair standing up on end. Powerful and deep, with a clear intensity but such delicacy; this is fresh, beautiful and succulent. It moves effortlessly through the palate without ever letting you forget that it's there. Deep black cherries, touches of dark chocolate and graphite are driven forward by a pulse of energy. From a blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc aged in 60% new oak. Drinking Window 2027 - 2050.
Jane Anson, (Jan 2017)

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