2024 Cos d'Estournel
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The 2024 Cos d’Estournel is dark and brooding on the nose, with a level of concentration that is almost unmatched in the appellation. Notes of ripe black plum, tea leaf and coffee radiate from the glass. It’s medium-bodied but complex with layers of ripe cassis that are incredibly vibrant and polished. The tannins are precise and envelop the fruit. Aged in 50% new oak, just 12.76% alcohol. Blend: 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot, 1.5% Cabernet Franc, 0.5% Petit Verdot
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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The 2024 Château Cos D'Estournel is a clear step up, with a concentrated, rich, yet still elegant profile. Cassis, graphite, crushed stone, and freshly sharpened pencil notes all define the aromatics, and it's medium to full-bodied, has a focused, structured mouthfeel, good acidity, and building tannins. It's going to require patience but is clearly an outstanding Cos in the making. Based on 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot, 1.5% Cabernet Franc, and a splash of Petit Verdot, resting in 50% new oak, it hit 12.76% with a pH of 3.57 and an IPT of 71.
Deep garnet-purple in color. Requires a little swirling to unlock notes of fresh blackcurrants and kirsch, leading to suggestions of bay leaves, wet slate, and tapenade with a touch of violets. The light-bodied palate is refreshing and elegant with fine-grained tannins and a whispery finish.
The 2024 Cos d'Estournel is shaping up beautifully. Offering up aromas of sweet cassis, plums, pencil shavings and iris, it's medium to full-bodied, supple and suave, reflecting this estate's pivot to a more harmonious, less aggressively extracted style. With a layered, seamless core of fruit framed by plenty of sweet, powdery tannin, it's a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot, 1.5% Cabernet Franc and 0.5% Petit Verdot that checks in at 12.7% alcohol. Cos is an early-ripening terroir, and that clearly played to the relative strengths of the vintage. Harvest here began with the estate's old-vine Merlot on gravel on September 23, concluding with the last Cabernet Sauvignon on October 7.
About the producer
Louis Gaspard d’Estournel inherited Cos and Pomys in 1791, founding Cos d’Estournel in 1811, investing significantly in the property and expanding the estate from 14 to 45 hectares. The estate rapidly rose to prominence and the wines were exported around the world.