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Cos D`Estournel 2005
HED69312
75 cl
13.5%
£250.00
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The 2005 release from Saint-Estèphe estate, Cos d’Estournel, is an exceptional wine now beginning to really hit its stride. Composed of an unusually high proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon (78%) with lesser parts Merlot and Cabernet Franc, it is immensely concentrated, deep and complex. With time it unfurls to reveal beautiful notes of cassis, black cherry, spring flowers, liquorice, cedar, tobacco and crushed stones. Decanting is strongly recommended.
97 Vinous
The 2005 Cos d’Estournel is a real head-turner. What a wine. The soaring, exotic bouquet is immediately alluring. Spice box, new leather, mocha, blackberry, graphite and espresso announce a wine of exotic, beguiling beauty. Each taste reveals a different facet of this great, great wine from proprietor Michel Reybier. Simply put, the 2005 Cos d’Estournel is an epic wine, one of the best of the year. Antonio Galloni19th December 2025
97 Jane Anson
Vibrant, with stately ruby red depths, touches of smoked oak, grilled cocoa bean and liqourice. This is powerful, with depths to the slate-strewn tannins. Tobacco, saffron, sage, crushed stones, baked earth, there is an opulent ripeness to the fruit, just on the precipice of tertiary. A lovely wine, big shouldered still with a few years before reaching its plateau. A few years ago I wrote of the Cos 2005, 'Good luck trying to predict when this wine will reach its end', and I still absolutely stand by that comment. 100% new oak.Jane Anson14th September 2022
19 Jancis Robinson
Much deeper than the Pagodes 2005, and bluer. Very sumptuous nose – like essence of St-Estèphe gravel. A certain richness but always true to the terroir. A real charmer. Still lots of tannin buried underneath but under layers of gorgeous fruit. Very bright and impressive with real energy. Very long. Athletic. (JR)
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