Château Coutet, 1er Cru Classé, Barsac, 2019
A complex nose with wonderful botrytis complexity, peach kernel, almond husk, nori, white pepper and grapefruit pith. On the palate, great acidity and a palpable and somewhat rare sense of energy as brisk paced citrus fruits dip their pithy toes in a pool of honey and fragrant white flowers. Freshness, prettiness, and no sense of heaviness – very much on the uplifting side of Barsac and Sauternes. A real success.
critic reviews
A blend of 75% Semillon, 23% Sauvignon Blanc, and 2% Muscadelle, the 2019 Coutet is pale lemon-straw in color. The nose offers lifted beurre blanc and preserved limes scents, followed by notes of apple pie and wet slate. The palate delivers intense citrus layers with a racy backbone and lifted finish.
The 2019 Coutet has quite a flamboyant, Germanic bouquet with petrol-infused botrytized fruit, though it lacks a bit of complexity and nuance. The palate is well-balanced with orange zest, marmalade and quince on the entry. Moderate depth, and quite linear towards the finish. It doesn't quite deliver the panache of the best wines of 2019 and there has been better Coutet's in recent years, but there is potential here. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.
Golden yellow in colour, concentrated and enticing. The focus is on texture and architecture rather than flavour on the first beats, but it opens to show enjoyable quince, lime, white flowers. Rich through the mid palate with welcome slate scrape and mandarin zest bitterness on the finish.
The pale lemon-gold colored 2019 Coutet is a thrill ride from the get-go, exploding from the glass with fantastically intense scents of tangerine peel, lime blossoms and lemon marmalade over a core of pineapple upside-down cake, candied ginger, ripe apricots and clover honey plus suggestions of chanterelles and musk perfume. The palate is equally electric and exhilarating, prancing around the palate with a whole myriad of candied citrus, stone fruit and citrus flavors, charged by a racy backbone of acidity, finishing beautifully textured and with an epically long firework display of minerals. Apart from all that, it is pretty darn delicious.
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