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

Daron Watson

a subtly sumptuous nose w gorgeous array of fruits ~ great length w soft dusty tannins

Martin G Rivard

Now we are talking!!! Bordeaux nose, Sattler leather, dark fruit, smoke, floral, deep dark and delicious!

Rob B

Little wine party at home

Bob 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.

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.

Nico 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.

Robert Cunningham

Wine Educator DeVinimus, Wine Workshop

Good but tannic and closed. Short finish. No nose.