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Cos d'Estournel Blanc 2010 75cl

AOC | Bordeaux Blanc | Bordeaux | France
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Critics scores
19 Rene Gabriel
94 James Suckling
Wonderful nose with red peach, strawberries and honeysuckle. Wonderful texture on the palate with a soft and perfectly dosed acidity. This white is long and structured with loads of bright white fruit and delicate minerals in the finish. Drink from 2016.
90 Robert Parker
Approximately 7,000 bottles are made of this blend of 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Semillon. Lemon/lime/grapefruit dominate the aromatics. Medium-bodied with wet gravel-like scents this is a nicely textured wine with 5-7 years of aging potential.
90 Wine Spectator
Features a whiff of matchstick before giving way to tangy citrus rind, pink grapefruit and salted butter notes. The long finish stays taut, with a pleasantly bitter almond and quinine profile. Offers an intriguing range of flavors and should settle in with some cellaring. Drink now through 2016. –JM
90 Robert Parker
Approximately 7,000 bottles are made of this blend of 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Semillon. Lemon/lime/grapefruit dominate the aromatics. Medium-bodied with wet gravel-like scents this is a nicely textured wine with 5-7 years of aging potential.
90 Wine Spectator
Features a whiff of matchstick before giving way to tangy citrus rind, pink grapefruit and salted butter notes. The long finish stays taut, with a pleasantly bitter almond and quinine profile. Offers an intriguing range of flavors and should settle in with some cellaring. Drink now through 2016. –JM
Producer
Château Cos d'Estournel
Producing some of the greatest wines in the Médoc, Château Cos d'Estournel is undoubtedly the premier estate in Saint-Estèphe. The all-encompassing 91-hectares of vineyards surround the majestic, almost oriental domaine on the hill of Cos. Founder, Louis Gaspard d’Estournel was better known as “the Maharajah of Saint-Estèphe” in the 1800s because of his distant conquests, with his wines reaching as far as India. He built these exotic pagodas we see today in celebration of his successes. The property currently belongs to French multi-millionaire Michel Reybier, who has upheld the founding values of excellence and has pushed forth the quality even more so since 2000. Reybier’s impressive investments in cutting-edge technologies has brought the estate to new heights. The prominent vinification techniques include must-concentration, malolactic in barrel and new oak for ageing. The Cos d’Estournel is an age-worthy robust but harmonious wine that builds in intensity and complexity with ten years’ time. The second wine was initially labeled Marbuzet, which itself is a Cru Bourgeois, but it is now bottled as Les Pagodes de Cos. In 1852, he had to sell due to his overwhelming debts. The château was then sold twice more before the Ginestet family purchased it in 1917. Their ancestors, the Prats family retained it until 2000 when they sold it to Michel Reybier, a French multi-millionaire, who has spent considerable sums to carry forth Louis Gaspard d'Estournel's original avant garde style and to push forth the quality of the wine. Today, it arguably produces the grandest wine in St. Estèphe though some would argue that neighbouring Montrose surpasses it.