Cos d'Estournel Saint-Estéphe 2. Cru Classé 2020 i trækasse

Tastingbook.com

Jeb Dunnuck

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. this flawless, full-bodied, incredibly 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.

Jeb Dunnuck

"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, incredibly 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."

Decanter

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. 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.

Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

A gorgeous, stylish wine, here you find a series of waves packed with blackberries, black plums, black cherries, smoke, licorice, dark chocolate, soy and an array of spices. Rich, deep and intense, the wine hits all the right notes as it melds power, fruit, freshness and elegance to create an opulent, velvety, silky finish that builds and expands as it hangs with you. This is so good now, it will be hard to wait to pull a cork. But its best days are all in the future. So, wait a bit and you will be amply rewarded with an incredible wine.

Vert de Vin Magazine

On the nose, racy and offers a beautiful elegance, finesse in its intensity, delicacy in its concentration and a nice multi-layered side. It reveals notes of fresh/fleshy cassis, wild strawberry and hints of crushed small red berries combined with touches of morello cherry, plum blossom, star anise, black tea as well as fine graphite, crushed mocha as well as nuances of sweet spices and an imperceptible hint of cuben pepper. On the palate, fruity, balanced and offers minerality, juiciness, freshness, generosity, good definition, gourmandise and an acidic/very delicate/thin texture, depth and an airy side in its richness, a subtle tight side, a high color/very precise yet complex side, a nice control and a good structure (all in finesse). The wine expresses notes of pulpy/fleshy blackberry, small black fruits and hints of dark plum combined with touches of raspberry, strawberry as well as wafts of mocha, tonka bean, camphor as well as fine hints of fresh vanilla bean, black tea as well as discrete hints of toasted/fortified hazelnut. Good length. The tannins are precise, elegant, structured, discreetly tight and justly firm.

Izak Litwar, Great Bordeaux Wines

Fantastic complexity and long-lasting finish. Spectacular effort.

La Revue du Vin de France

The Wine Independent

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!

Markus del Monego MW

Anthocyanes Yohan Castaing

Le Figaro Vin

Bernard Burtschy

Antonio Galloni

The 2020 Cos d'Estournel is a wine of extreme elegance. Silky and light on its feet, the 2020 is incredibly nuanced. In fact it is without question the most finessed of all the top wines in Saint-Estèphe, showing more in common with some of its neighbors in the north of Pauillac than the more potent wines of Saint-Estèphe. Impossibly soft, silky tannins wrap around a core of dark red fruit, spice and orange zest. The 2020 is not a huge Cos, but rather a wine for readers who appreciate elegance over power. I can't wait to see how it ages. Magnificent.

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

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.