Chateau Cos D'Estournel 2016

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (100)

The 2016 Cos d'Estournel is blended of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc aged in 65% new and 35% two-year-old French oak for 15 months. Bottled in July 2018, it is deep garnet-purple colored and starts off a little closed and reticent, opening out slowly and seductively to reveal beautiful lilacs, rose hip tea, crushed stones and camphor nuances over a core of crème de cassis, kirsch, wild blueberries and mocha plus wafts of incense and wood smoke. The palate is simply electric, charged with an energy and depth of flavors that seem to defy the elegance and ethereal nature of its medium-bodied weight, featuring super ripe, densely pixelated tannins that firmly frame the myriad of fruit and floral sparks, finishing with epic length. Just. Magic.

James Suckling (96)

This has a core of slightly exotic loganberry, plum and boysenberry fruit laced with singed spice, savory, lilac and incense notes, while a buried chalk-edged minerality sits in reserve. Very sleek, with a wonderfully long finish that lets the fruit and other elements shimmer.

Rene Gabriel (19)

Gabriel: Fassprobe 17: (76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc, 45 hl/ha, 45% Grand Vin, 13.07% vol. Alkohol) Fein opulentes, kräftiges, süsses, komplexes Bouquet, Backpflaumen, schwarze Kirschen, fein Dörrfrüchte, Moccacreme, Minze, Tabak, Korinthen. Cremiger, dichterverwobener, eleganter Gaumen mit kräftiger, dunkler Frucht, sehr viel feinem Tannin, konzentrierter, molliger Struktur, dichter, dunkler, vielfältiger Aromatik, sehr langer, fein üppiger Abgang mit süssen Rückaromen.

BOW (9)