Château Cos d'Estournel Saint-Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend 2003

Greg Gregory

PBFW 2016 Mentor Dinner. Double Mag

Tom 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.

Mike Smith

Owner/Winemaker Myriad Cellars

2003 is a great vintage. Time will prove it

Craig Haserot

Founder and Proprietor Sojourn Cellars

Wow this is good. In a great space now and for a while.