Château Cos d'Estournel

G d'Estournel, Médoc, Rouge, 2020

Name: G d'Estournel, Médoc, Rouge
Brand: Château Cos d'Estournel
Price: 104.23 GBP

92/100

Inside Bordeaux

86/100

The Wine Independent

86/100

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2020
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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

2020 vintage yielded exceptional Merlot from the Goulée vineyard, in the northern part of Médoc. The 35 year old average age of vines stood them in good stead for this extreme drought season. The result is something that offers the perfume of a fresh vintage with the ripe acidity and a quality of tannins usually observed in warmer vintages. A mixture of hedgerow fruit and saline notes with a twist of cracked pepper.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

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Critic Reviews

86/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

The 2020 G d’Estournel has a deep garnet-purple color. It features notes of raspberry leaves and fresh blackberries, plus touches of tar, bay leaves, and damp soil. The medium-bodied palate is light on its feet, with nice freshness and a chewiness to the finish.

drinking window 2023 - 2032

date of review 03/2023

92/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

So interesting tasting this against a wide range of AOC Médoc wines. It's a more expensive bottle than many of them, but it is confident, crafted and full of personality. Cocoa bean, espresso, plentiful berry fruit, touches of mandarin peel and lemongrass to lift things on the finish, slate texture tannins, good stuff.

drinking window 2025 - 2035

date of review 02/2023

86/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2020 Goulée by Cos d'Estournel, which was bottled in April, has a slightly sharp, balsamic-tinged nose, maybe just missing a little sophistication and class. The palate is medium-bodied with a chocolate and brown spice infused opening, quite dry tannins with a little austerity towards the finish. I would just like a little more complexity in this wine.

drinking window 2023 - 2027

date of review 02/2023

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Specifications

Country:

France

Region:

Bordeaux

Appellation:

Médoc

Producer:

Château Cos d'Estournel

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Cab Sauvignon Merlot

abv:

13.5%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.