Cos d'Estournel 2020

Type: Red Wine      Volume: 750ml

Winery: Cos d'Estournel

Country: France     Region: Bordeaux

District: Saint-Estèphe

Grapes Varieties: 62% Cabernet Sauvignon and 38% Merlot

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Alcohol:      Packing: Original Wooden Case of 6 bottles

Ratings and Tasting Notes:

JS=98. A brooding and deep wine just on the nose, with blackcurrants, redcurrants, spices such as cardamom and nutmeg, as well as black truffles with earth. Complex. Full-bodied with fine yet chewy tannins, that are wonderfully interwoven. Very structured and long. Needs five to six years to come around. 62% cabernet and 38% merlot. Try after 2028.

WA=94. The 2020 Cos d'Estournel is a bold, demonstrative wine, bursting with aromas of cassis, dark berries and plum liqueur mingled with exotic spices, burning embers and petals, framed by a generous application of creamy new oak. Full-bodied, broad and low acid/high pH in style, it's rich and extracted, with a layered, mid-palate and a long, clove-inflected finish. While it isn't anywhere near as extreme as the 2009, the 2020 does appear to mark a move back toward a more turbo-charged style after Cos d'Estournel's shift toward elegance, exemplified by the brilliant 2016—but perhaps that's merely an illusion created by the vintage? Best After 2025