2007 Château Coutet
Estimated value
Buying options
Tasting notes
The 2007 Coutet has a quintessential Barsac nose with barley sugar and light chlorophyll scents filtering through the honeyed fruit. The palate is beautifully balanced and powerful. Layers of botrytised fruit, marmalade and tangerine come to the fore with great focus and delineation on the finish. This is an outstanding Coutet that will give years of drinking pleasure. Tasted from an ex-château bottle served at the estate.
Critic scores
Wine Spectator
Neal Martin
More reviews and scores
The 2007 Coutet has a taut and well-defined bouquet of dried honey, saffron and touches of crushed stone, a hint of orange pith emerging with time. The palate is well balanced with fine acidity, a tang of marmalade and barley sugar with a lively and quite persistent, detailed finish. Very fine. Tasted at the 2007 horizontal in Sauternes.
Tasted single blind against its peers. The Chateau Coutet 2007 has a very intense bouquet with lemon curd and orange blossom mixed with clear honey. There is impressive precision here, almost crystalline. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine viscous entry, great weight and intensity with racy acidity. There is also much tension cutting through the layers of viscous fruit on the sorbet-like finish. This is a typical Coutet through and through and it should age effortlessly over 20-30 years. Tasted January 2011.
About the producer
Classified as a First Growth in 1855, this Barsac property has a history stretching back to the 14th century. Today it has 38.5 hectares of vineyard, producing brilliant sweet wines cut by taut acidity. In certain years, it produces Cuvée Madame, pure botrytised Semillon from its oldest vines.