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Château Cos d'Estournel 2018

Château Cos d'Estournel, Bordeaux, France

Château Cos d'Estournel
Bordeaux France
  • 100
    Points
  • The 162 best
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  • 10 Pros of
    11 recommend
    this wine
413 100
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  • Country ranking ?

    132

  • Producer ranking ?

    1

  • Decanting time

    5h

  • When to drink

    from 2025

  • Food Pairing

    Roasted Veil

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98-99 JAMES SUCKLING: "What strikes you is how aromatic this already is at this stage. Complex and decadent, showing lots of dark berries, smoked meat, wet earth, and dried leaves. Decadent. Full-bodied with very ripe and polished, velvety tannins. Great finish."

97-100 THE WINEADVOCATE: "The 2018 Cos d´Estournel is composed of 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc and has 14.59% alcohol. Aging in 50% new...

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The Story

The call of faraway lands. As mysterious and intriguing as a lone adventurer returning from a solitary sail, Cos d’Estournel is slow to reveal itself. Little by little, it evokes stories of distant places, market stalls brimming with unfamiliar fruits, spices and wares, village festivities warmed by the joy of revelers and the setting sun, and sumptuous visions of ladies and their voluptuous curves. A myriad of scents, colors and tastes appeal...

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Wine Information

Finely structured and vibrant, Cos d'Estournel 2018 is both powerful and balanced, with very soft tannins. It offers a multitude of nuances, including remarkably elegant spices and an extremely long and lingering finish. It is an outstanding vintage with immense cellaring potential that will surley count among the most legendary vintages of the estate. 
Blend: 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot

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Vintage 2018

2018 Bordeaux Vintage Report and recommendations

by Andrew Caillard MW

2018 is an exceptional year. The Bordeaux whites and sauternes are very good, but from an Australian perspective the excitement is all in the red wines. All sub regions produced examples of really good wines, but some performed better than others. Generally the very top estates made exemplary wines illustrating that the human factor and wealth can have a major impact ...

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Cos d'Estournel - 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, This wine really did hit "bull's eye" in 2018! An extraordinary effort, big, iron-strong backbone, so concentrated and fat that it could be sliced in tranches. Creamy. There is elegance, sophisticated touch, awesome complexity, style, and long, long finish. Wow! 14.59% alcohol (well-hidden by fruit), only 50% new barrels. All the wonderful promises from the barrel are now transferred to the bottle! Tasted twice from the barrel, once from the bottle. 99-100p 

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The beautiful integration of ripe fruit and ripe tannins gives the wine a layered and agile mouthfeel. Soft and gorgeous with silky tannins that really kick in at the finish and carry the wine for a long time. Barrel Sample: 98-99

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Splendid constitution, exemplary classicism in a perfectly mastered tannin extraction, great future, worthy of its pedigree.

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Deep crimson. Intense dark plum cassis praline aromas with liquorice. Deep set dark plum, black currant pastille, fresh long dense gravelly tannins. Finishes chalky firm. Massive volume, viscosity and plenty of richness and underlying savoury oak. This is spectacularly good this year. 14.5%

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Bold tannins, rich fruit and good acidity combine in a wine that is powerful while always fresh. With acidity and stylish black-currant flavors, the wine’s fruitiness comes through the tannins, finishing with a juicy, perfumed aftertaste

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Dark purple red with violet hue an almost black core. Exuberant nose with ripe blackcurrants, blackberries, sweet elderberries and mulberries. On the palate savoury character, ripe tannins, lush fruit, great depth and excellent length with a promising potential. 

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Origin

St-Estèphe, Bordeaux

Inside Information

(74 Cabernet Sauvignon, 23 Merlot, 2 Cabernet Franc, 1 Petit Verdot) | 50% new oak | 14.59% alc | 30 hl/ha | 3.69 pH | 66% of total production | 80 IPT I tasted the wines with owner Michel Reybier and winemaker Dominique Arangoïts and they were peculiarly quiet as I worked my way through the glasses. This only ever happens when those concerned are extremely pleased with their wines but don’t want to show it. How right they were, albeit without giving anything away! The entire suite of wines from this estate is impeccable, but the Grand Vin is a staggering tour de force. From the incredible volume of fruit on the nose to the exquisite detail on the palate, this is an awesomely balanced wine. It has everything. The fruit is sensationally seductive and its depth is profound. The mouth-watering mid-palate is truly epic and there is freshness and bounce from the first sip to the final flavour memory and this balance is enchanting. This is a spectacular vintage for Cos and everything you could possibly want in a wine is here but, crucially, there is not too much of any one element. So often, larger framed wines can tip out of balance and deliver too much of a good thing. Cos remains masterful, expansive and also precision-tooled in its detail. This is the finest young wine I have tasted at this Château and I have no hesitation in giving it a perfect score. While many foundered, this imposing estate, sitting on its majestic plot of land took the best elements from the complex and baffling season and used them to its advantage. It is true that wineries used to making richer styles of wine are the most successful, in my eyes, in 2018. Cos d’Estournel is one such property and it has made a wine which will taste incredible every day of its life and, inevitably, many of these days will be long after I have departed this world.
Score: 20+ Matthew Jukes, MatthewJukes.com, April 2019
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