1990 Château Cos d'Estournel

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  5/11/2024 - Mascarello59 wrote: flawed

  Badly corked

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  3/30/2024 - Bronson Meadows Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Exceptionally smooth and mature. High tanins - opening to dark berries and leather notes after decanting. Holds up extremely well despite being past its “apogée”.

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  3/17/2024 - mchern02 wrote: 94 Points

  2 hours of air plus 2 hour decant
  
  This bottle was deeply resolved and mature. Nose of dark black fruit, graphite, smoke, and tobacco. Beautiful and relaxed palate, with nice lift and notes black fruit, earth and a smokey cigar box. Finish is long and powerful. Youthful or atleast unresolved, and beautifully dry.
  
  In the strike zone

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  2/7/2024 - Nontaco Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Standard, very good if perhaps generic aged Bordeaux. Wasn’t really asserting itself but was perfectly serviceable and tasty over a nice meal at Jean Georges.

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  12/25/2023 - Mleh Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I don’t have much experience with Bordeaux this old so I was quite careful with it at first but it needed a lot of air. I started out with a slow ox but then ended up double decanting and aerating over four hours. Drank it with a rib roast and dauphinois potatoes. It was the perfect pairing. Dark cherry and cassis on the nose, palate was dark cherry, leather and some cigar spice. Really well structured, nice acidity and perfect amount of tannin for the beef. I would say it was probably a little past its peak, the earth/fruit ratio was probably 70/30, I can imagine a few years ago it would have been brighter. Still, it was a great bottle and I’m very happy to have been able to try it.

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