Château Cos-d’Estournel – St.-Estèphe 1997Item ID: #3015
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89 points, Wine Spectator Description: Serious concentration of fruit in this wine, with plenty of chocolate and berry character and a hint of dried herbs on the nose. Full- to medium-bodied, with plenty of fruit and a velvety texture. Château Cos d’Estournel The Vineyard of Cos …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. The vineyard of Cos spreads around the [...]
Item Description
89 points, Wine Spectator
Description: Serious concentration of fruit in this wine, with plenty of chocolate and berry character and a hint of dried herbs on the nose. Full- to medium-bodied, with plenty of fruit and a velvety texture.
Château Cos d’Estournel
The Vineyard of Cos
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The vineyard of Cos spreads around the château on 91 hectares.
The Cabernet Sauvignon vines (60% of the vineyard) find the soil of their choice in the thin layers of gravely soil situated on the top and on the southern slopes of the hill.
On the other hand, the Merlot vines (40% of the vineyard) excel on the eastern slopes and on the slopes where the Saint-Estephe limestone bed shows on the surface.
The percentage of Cabernet and Merlot varies from one vintage to another according to the year weather conditions, benefiting successively to the one or the other.
Plantation is extremely dense (8000 to 10000 vines per hectare) and the average age of the vineyard is high (35 years old on the average) in order to enable the roots to extend excessively and to obtain a very slender yield per vine that will create the “Grand Goût”
Only the wines coming from over 20 years old vines will have the name of Chateau Cos d’Estrournel.
Cos d’Estournel
A Grand Cru can express a certain style
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Like a novelist who maintains the same style in different novels, a Grand Cru wine can express a certain style in different years.
Cos d’Estournel has become, in the eyes of lovers of fine wines, the archetype of a certain style of masculine elegance in which immense power is combined with grace and smoothness.
Impressive when young for the intensity of its structure and explosive fruit, Cos d’Estournel evolves slowly to arrive, when completely mature (after ten to thirty years) at an admirable smoothness and aromatic complexity.
Great vintages can be exceptionally long-lived, exceeding a century.
