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Château Cos d'Estournel, 2ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe [BS, SHC], 2000
critic reviews
High floral aromatics, and fully melted tannins that welcome you in. Cigar box, sandalwood, tobacco, damson, fully in its drinking window, black liquorice and soy. 100% new oak. First vintage of Michel Reybier as owner, having bought the estate from the (brief tenure) of a Taillan-South American joint venture, and before that the long-term owner Bruno Prats. Jean-Guillaume Prats remained in place at the time as director, with today's technical director Dominique Arangoits joined also in 2000. Plenty of deposit so make sure you carafe carefully.
The 2000 Cos d’Estournel, last tasted at the epic vertical, has much the same nose as it did three years ago. Bold and demonstrative, it delivers scents of blackberry, prune, fig, dark chocolate and perhaps a more East Asian tincture; I don’t know why, but there is something that reminds me of South Korean cuisine. Burnt honey? The palate is medium-bodied, and this bottle feels quite feral, offering exotic black fruit that hints at the Mediterranean, and some dry tannins toward the ever so slightly bretty finish. I actually found the previous bottle a little fresher and I wonder if we are beginning to see some variation in evolution.