描述
Chateau Cos d’Estournal (爱士图尔庄园)
DEUXIEMES CRU CLASSÉ, ST. ESTEPHE
BORDEAUX, FRANCE.
Chateau Cos d’Estournel is clearly one of the best producers in the Medoc. They are making one of the most exciting Bordeaux wines today! The wines are rich, sensuous, age-worthy, concentrated, refined, powerful, elegant and tannic.
They are meant to age. Even though these wines are packed, everything is in perfect balance. The perfume offers a unique incense quality, that is not found in other Bordeaux wines.
Make no mistake the Bordeaux wine being produced at Chateau Cos d’Estournel today are better than anything this historic estate has made at any point in their history!
In my opinion, which is shared by numerous tasters, 2009 is the finest wine Chateau Cos d’Estournel has ever produced. Although 2016 is quite close!
However, that opinion regarding 2009 is not shared by everyone. Numerous choices took place before this happened, starting with when to pick. Prats considered harvesting the young Cabernet Sauvignon vines first. He changed his mind and began with the older vines.
Jean Guillaume Prats explained, “The fruit was fully mature in some of the older vine blocks. The grapes would not improve. The Cabernet Sauvignon was already at 14% potential alcohol. The fruit could gain concentration and sugar, but you would also lose volume”. The grapes are completely destemmed at Cos d’Estournel, but Prats stated, “The stems are so ripe in 2009, they could have been included!”
