Chateau Cos d'Estournel 2020
Château Cos d`Estournel is a 2nd Growth estate located in St-Estéphe. The 100ha site sits in the south of the appellation, right on the border with Pauillac, just north of Chateau Lafite. Cos d’Estournel is regarded as the leading estate in St Estéphe as well as a so-called super second.
The estate was established in the early 19th when Louis Gaspard Lacoste of Maniban Marquis d’Estournel, inherited some vineyards near the village of Cos. It was he who also built the exotic oriental styled chateau that has become a landmark in the Médoc.
2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the Second Growth’s acquisition by Michel Reybier. To mark the occasion the estate bottled the 2020 vintage in a unique, black and gold engraved bottle featuring the property’s distinctive château and its pagodas.
This bottle was purchased at release date and has been stored in a temperature controlled cabinet.
The 2020 Cos d'Estournel is a blend of 62% cabernet sauvignon, 38% merlot. It's 13.5% alcohol.
“A first-growth level wine. With aristocratic ease it conveys nimble energy and sneaky sensuality. Pencil lead, white tobacco, cassis, juicy blackberry and cherry gorgeously delineated with refined tannins providing impressive structure for long-term cellaring. The pH is the highest since 2003, but you get neither heat nor imbalance. Impressive dry extract and rather 'normal' alcohol at 13.5% evokes a positively classic feel, leading to a subtle yet super-long finish. For owner Michel Reybier, the vintage marks 20 years of 'passion at the helm'. Comes encased in a uniquely gold-coloured engraved bottle with the phrase 'C’était Cos sinon rien' - Cos or nothing else.”
99 points, Panos Kakaviatos, Decanter, Feb 2023.
“The deep purple-hued 2020 Château Cos D'Estournel has, dare I say, an almost Lafite-like sense of elegance and class, offering gorgeous cassis and darker currants fruits as well as tobacco, lead pencil, acacia flowers, and graphite. This flawless, full-bodied, incredibly elegant Saint-Estèphe has silky tannins, perfect balance, and a great, great finish. It will need a decade of cellaring to hit its prime drink window. Of the trilogy of 2018, 2019, and 2020, it's clearly my favorite (that’s splitting hairs), with a similarity to the 2016, and will most likely merit another point at maturity. *#2 Wine of the Year 2023*”
99 points, Jeb Dunnuck, April 2023.
"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."
98 points, James Suckling, May 2023.
"The 2020 Cos d’Estournel has a deep garnet-purple color. It is very closed at this youthful stage but with much shaking it opens out to vivacious notes of crushed blackcurrants, juicy blackberries, kirsch, and cinnamon stick, plus suggestions of star anise, lilacs, and crushed rocks. The medium-bodied palate shimmers with energetic black fruit and mineral layers, supported by fine-grained, beautifully ripe tannins and seamless freshness, finishing very long and fragrant. A very elegant expression of Cos, and absolutely beguiling!"
98 points, Lisa Perrotti-Brown, March 2023.
| SKU | 1COSD20 |
| Brand | Chateau Cos d'Estournel |
| Shipping Weight | 1.5000kg |
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