Daron Watson
a subtly sumptuous nose w gorgeous array of fruits ~ great length w soft dusty tannins
a subtly sumptuous nose w gorgeous array of fruits ~ great length w soft dusty tannins
9.6Martin G Rivard
Now we are talking!!! Bordeaux nose, Sattler leather, dark fruit, smoke, floral, deep dark and delicious!
Now we are talking!!! Bordeaux nose, Sattler leather, dark fruit, smoke, floral, deep dark and delicious!
9.3Rob B
Little wine party at home
Little wine party at home
9.2Bob McDonald
Decided to continue drinking my 2003 Bordeaux from this hot year. This was in excellent condition. Rich crimson with a garnet edge. Aromatics of dry plum and cassis with pronounced cedar box - like the aromas you get from pulling out a chest of drawers in an antique shop. All in all obviously left bank Bordeaux. Medium weight mellifluous palate with perfect balance finishing with sandy fine tannins. Julia Harding’s drinking window of 2010 to 2018 proved to be conservative. Wonderful claret.
Decided to continue drinking my 2003 Bordeaux from this hot year. This was in excellent condition. Rich crimson with a garnet edge. Aromatics of dry plum and cassis with pronounced cedar box - like the aromas you get from pulling out a chest of drawers in an antique shop. All in all obviously left bank Bordeaux. Medium weight mellifluous palate with perfect balance finishing with sandy fine tannins. Julia Harding’s drinking window of 2010 to 2018 proved to be conservative. Wonderful claret.
9.5Greg Gregory
PBFW 2016 Mentor Dinner. Double Mag
PBFW 2016 Mentor Dinner. Double Mag
9.3Tom Kobylarz
The biggest and most full bodied wine of the evening was the Cos d'Estournel. From the hot 2003 vintage this also made it the youngest red of the evening. Big, irony, camp fire embers, black currants and cassis, toasty and well integrated oak buffer the wine. Time has peeled back some of that concentration revealing the heat that stuck out to me as the one big thing out of place. In the context of the vintage this might be OK but it turned me off. Good, but disappointing especially considering how critics went out of their way to speak of its lack of signs of heat.
The biggest and most full bodied wine of the evening was the Cos d'Estournel. From the hot 2003 vintage this also made it the youngest red of the evening. Big, irony, camp fire embers, black currants and cassis, toasty and well integrated oak buffer the wine. Time has peeled back some of that concentration revealing the heat that stuck out to me as the one big thing out of place. In the context of the vintage this might be OK but it turned me off. Good, but disappointing especially considering how critics went out of their way to speak of its lack of signs of heat.
8.9Mike Smith
Owner/Winemaker Myriad Cellars
2003 is a great vintage. Time will prove it
2003 is a great vintage. Time will prove it
9.8Craig Haserot
Founder and Proprietor Sojourn Cellars
Wow this is good. In a great space now and for a while.
Wow this is good. In a great space now and for a while.
9.4Nico J. Snyman
Love Cos, not much of a fan of the '03's though, I'm not so sure the '03's will ever be a vintage that in 15 years we will be looking fondly on, just too much overripe(cooked) fruit character that will only maderize as time goes on.
Love Cos, not much of a fan of the '03's though, I'm not so sure the '03's will ever be a vintage that in 15 years we will be looking fondly on, just too much overripe(cooked) fruit character that will only maderize as time goes on.
8.8Robert Cunningham
Wine Educator DeVinimus, Wine Workshop
Good but tannic and closed. Short finish. No nose.
Good but tannic and closed. Short finish. No nose.
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