Tasting Notes
Antonio Galloni 94
The 2021 Cos d’Estournel Blanc is a big wine—rich, dramatic and expressive. Low yields in 2021 created a white that is deep, layered and quite potent in feel. Tangerine peel, citrus confit, marzipan and a touch of new oak give the 2021 a decidedly flamboyant, extroverted personality.
Anticipated maturity: 2024-2031
Neal Martin 92
The 2021 Cos d’Estournel Blanc, bottled in December 2022, shows a bit of reduction in the glass, with touches of candle wax and lanolin infusing the yellow fruit, perhaps requiring a little more delineation. The palate is well-balanced with fine poise. This clearly has more tension and mineralité compared to the Pagodes Blanc, with a crisper finish. This is a successful white Cos d’Estournel that should age well in bottle, but one should afford it time for the aromatics to fully open.
Anticipated maturity: 2024-2040
Wine Advocate 91-93+
Including fully 29% Sémillon, the 2021 Cos d’Estournel Blanc is a terrific effort from holdings in the northern Médoc. Offering up aromas of confit citrus, crisp orchard fruit, lime zest, pastry cream and freshly braked bread, it’s medium to full-bodied, layered and incisive, with chalky structuring dry extract and a penetrating finish. There’s no question that it’s one of the Médoc’s most interesting white wines.
James Suckling 97-98
This is layered and serious, with intense yet subtle notes of dried pineapple, lemon, crushed stones and shells. Salty. Long and driven with vivacity and energy. So minerally, in every sense. Grabs hold of you. 71% sauvignon blanc and 29% semillon.
Jeb Dunnuck 94-96
Made in a deeper, richer style, the Grand Vin white 2021 Château Cos D’Estournel Blanc offers a vivid, racy, medium-bodied, concentrated mouthfeel as well as bright, juicy notes of white grapefruit, chalky mineral, and white flowers. It brings this terrific rocky, chalky, mineral-driven style on palate, has bright acidity, and a great mid-palate. It’s seriously impressive.
Decanter 94
Such a gorgeous nose, really so aromatic filled with caramel , honey, lemon balm, cream, apricot, honeysuckle and white flowers. Generous, unctuous and driven, this is also quite sharp but in a precise way, it finds the back of the throat and takes aim delivering all the flavour at once in a straight line. I love the intensity, the drive of lemon and fragrant spice also with a wet stone bitterness that lingers. ItÕs not round or expansive necessarily but so confident, super juicy and mouthwatering. Lots of complexity and detail – a yummy and impressive white.
Anticipated maturity: 2024-2040
Jane Anson 94
Clear reduction on the first nose, fragrant and with grip, does a great job of unrolling slowly and hanging on, lengthening out and delivering a drip feed of liqourice, fennel and white pepper spice to accompany the citrus-dominant fruits. Impressively moreish. Harvest September 17 to October 9. 3.09ph.
Anticipated maturity: 2023-2032
