Château Cos-d'Estournel - St.-Estèphe 2020 (750ml)
Price: $279.00
| Producer | Château Cos-d'Estournel |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | St. Estephe |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 1005724 |
| Size | 750ml |
Decanter: 99 Points
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.
Jeb Dunnuck: 99 Points
Based on 62% Cabernet Sauvignon and 38% Merlot 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. Hitting 13.46 alcohol with a pH of 3.9 and an IPT of 80 this flawless full-bodied incredible 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.
James Suckling: 98 Points
This is a very refined polished Cos with superb finesse and length. Medium-to full-bodied very fine and persistent. Really long with beautiful tannins. Rich but fresh and linear. Yet the alcohol is around 13.5%. 62% cabernet and 38% merlot.
jaThe Wine Independent: 98 Points
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!
Vinous: 97 Points
The 2020 Cos d'Estournel which was bottled in July has lost some of the exoticism that it showed out of barrel. Within five minutes of aeration it develops a complex bouquet: black fruit laced with graphite and subtle cedar aromas a charcoal back-note and later pressed iris flowers. I foresee this gaining more nuance with bottle age. The palate is taut lean and precise. Lightly spiced on
Jane Anson: 97 Points
Brilliant just so much complexity and depth. The serious tannic heft means this is not the most exuberant Cos d'Estournel but it is such good quality with edges of violet and peony alongside black tea turmeric cloves blueberry raspberry waves of confident tannins and sea-salted bitter chocolate. Harvest September 10 to 24 39hl/ha yield 3.9ph.
Wine Spectator: 94 Points
A broad rich enticing wine built on a core of exotic mulberry and loganberry notes laced with black tea spices and incense. Rounded through the finish with the fruit cruising through under a suave gloss of toast. A real crowd-pleaser with a luxurious feel that makes this hard to lay off of now. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Drink now through 2038. 13000 cases made 2000 cases imported.
Wine Advocate: 94 Points
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?
