Cos D`Estournel Magnum 2005
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Cos D`Estournel Magnum 2005
HED0355
150 cl
13.5%
£510.00
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Cos D`Estournel 2005 is a full-bodied, Cabernet Sauvignon-based red wine from the Saint-Estèphe appellation of Bordeaux. The 2005 release from 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. Available here in magnum format.
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
18 Jancis Robinson
Wonderfully intense, healthy purplish crimson. Restrained nose – rather cool impression despite the record alcohols that rose to 15 per cent for some Merlots. The finished wine is just below 14 per cent. Quite chewy and inky. There is obviously a lot of ripeness buried in here but that’s what it is for the moment – buried. A sure bet but it’s a monster for the moment. Very dry and Médoc and chewy. They have gone for max this year, and that means you will have to wait for max time for it to be ready. Less of a wine, more of a statement of intent. Jean-Guillaume Prats was perhaps aware that the first sample did not show perfectly so produced a second which was slightly more expressive. (JR)
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