Cos d'Estournel 2022
Red wine | 2nd Cru Classé, Saint-Estèphe AOC
Like a solitary adventurer having sailed across the seas, Cos d'Estournel seems at first secret and intriguing. Then it reveals itself, slowly. Step by step, in small touches, it evokes stories of distant cities, of markets with a thousand secrets, of joyful celebrations in villages with hot stones, of women with voluptuous curves.
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France Bordeaux
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Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
Cabernet Franc
Petit Verdot 5 - 30 years
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14.0% Vol.
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100 100Jean-Marc QuarinJamais ce cru n'a obtenu une telle appréciation jusqu'alors. Couleur noire. Nez intense, fin, fruité, pur, épicé et complexe. Envoûtant dès l'entrée en bouche, envoûtant au milieu, accompagné de mille saveurs sophistiquées complexes et éclatantes, ce vin pourtant très plein fond au palais. Puis viennent les fruits frais, les fruits noirs, les fleurs, la puissance, une très grande longueur et une onctuosité savoureuse irrésistible. Ah le merlot à Cos, c'est quelque chose ! Assemblage : 61 % cabernet sauvignon, 37 % merlot, 1 % cabernet franc, 1 % petit verdot. Degré d'alcool : 14°04 - pH : 3,79. Rendement : 33 hl/ha. Avril 2023.
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99 100James SucklingWow. So intense and spicy with nutmeg, cloves, ink and blackberries. Also asphalt, lead pencil and tobacco. Full-bodied, but at the same time, there’s a real balance giving incredible depth and length. The tannins are all there but are polished as well as firm. Superb structure. A neoclassical Cos, one for long-term aging. Perhaps the best ever. A blend of 61% cabernet sauvignon, 37% merlot, 1% cabernet franc and 1% petit verdot. Drink after 2030. January 2025.
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98 100Yves Beck61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot Que de profondeur, de grandeur, de largeur, de pluralité dans le bouquet de Cos d’Estournel avec des notes épicées, florales, chocolatées et fruitées. En bouche, le vin ne cherche pas l’extravagance ou l’exubérance, il se concentre sur l’efficacité, sur la pertinence, la profondeur et une redoutable aptitude à concilier puissance et fraîcheur. Les tannins aux grains fins assurent une belle puissance, tandis que la structure acide se charge de plébisciter le tempérament et la persistance de la finale. Un vin musclé, démonstratif et performant ! 2029-2054. Décembre 2024.
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98 100Wine Enthusiast97-99 Barrel sample. The qualities of the 2022 vintage have been good to Cos d'Estournel. Freshness and black fruits have lightened the tannins into a fine and juicy wine. The result is impressive—a superb, generous and structured wine that is one of the best from the estate for many years. Roger Voss. February 2023.
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98 100DecanterVivid and vibrant black berry fruit on the nose. Supple and lively, this has a brilliant texture and weight in the mouth, slightly grippy but with an iron-tang giving a mineral aspect to the fruit with hints of liquorice spice. Still a little compact in terms of the expressiveness of flavours but there's no faulting the tannic finesse on offer. Acidity is perfect, really lifting the expression with blueberries, pencil lead and clove. This carries the strength of the vintage - the sunny fruit and headiness of the aromas are pure 2022 but it's also incredibly refined with such class on show. I love it. Drinking window: 2027 - 2050. Georgina Hindle. January 2025.
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94 100Robert Parker's Wine AdvocateMuch as it was en primeur, the 2022 Cos d'Estournel is an inky, brooding wine. Offering up aromas of ripe berries, licorice, pencil shavings, iris and creamy new oak, it's full-bodied, dense and heavily extracted, with a chunky, tannic profile that privileges raw power over sensuality. Drinking window: 2030 - 2045. William Kelley. March 2025.

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Dark red with purplish highlights.
A voluptuous bouquet combining the freshness of graphite and pepper notes with the elegance of tea and the sweetness of liquorice and dark fruit flavours.
This vintage has an incredible finesse reminiscent of cashmere, and delights with its endless length. It already promises to be a vintage with great ageing potential.
The word "Cos" means, in old Gascon, "the hill of stones". The Cos hill stands on the banks of the Gironde, an impressive pile of gravel, deposited on the limestone base of Saint-Estèphe.
Vatting for 21 days at controlled temperature, aging for 18 months in oak barrels, 80% of which is new wood.
Cork
Wooden box