English bottling. A bit tired with a hint of Madeira. The only reason why I am posting this note is because of the remarkable concentration and sweet fruit. If this were to cellared properly, this has to be an exceptional wine that should still drink well.
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One of Those Big Birthdays (Margaux's Table, White Bear Lake, MN): Very dark red minus color with a 7mm transitional to clear margin. PNP, drank a glass over 90 minutes. Low shoulder fill with a fully saturated wet cork that released on just turning in the spindle. Like most of these older bottles this needed a few minutes to shake off the cobwebs. Definitely intact right off the bat, but steadily evolving in the glass. This is one of those revelatory wines that certainly demonstartes the durability and ageability of Bordeaux. One might naturally be worried about the the low shoulder fill or the wet cork, but this wine defies the odds and in my experience is not an outlyer. What a great wine, showing its ever changing colors. The nose is filled with saddle leather, earth and a touch of funk to start which slowly builds over 20 minutes into an amazing perfume of pencil lead, tar, soil, dried purple flowers, red currants, red cherry and mulch. The palate still is zinging with tart red fruits on a sleek medium body, cherry, dried forest floor, crushed blackberries, soil and minerals, round medium tannins and a long finish. This was in great shape, and an absolute joy to drink a birth year wine for this milestone bday. I don't think most would pick this out as 60 years old if drank blind - maybe 40, and this has got the stuffing to go for another 20 it would seem. My WOTN in a really, really strong group.
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Rocknroller has a special birthday (Margaux's Table): Dried flowers stand out the most. This wine improved over the 2 hours it was in front of me, it was a bit odd and lean initially but it rounded out very well, with tons of complexity underscored by leather and violets.
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Kevin's Big Six-OHhhhhhhhh Nooooo (Margaux's Table in White Bear Lake): I guess when you are dealing with wines this old it a crap shoot....aside from storage issues, you still have bottle variation issues also....well, today the wine gods were smiling! This was my first 1961 wine, and I was very pleasantly surprised. This wine had the most complex nose I have encountered. It was perfumed, but notes of black and red fruit, coupled with leather and earth dominated. Later, violets and dried flowers came to the forefront. Unfortunately, this was only a two ounce pour, and once I started tasting the wine, it was gone before I knew it and no time to revisit later in the night to track its evolution. The palate showed a nice mix of fruit and tertiary flavors with notes of cassis and earth dominating, but also showed some bark, tobacco and dark cherry. A pleasure to drink and held up remarkably well for a 60 year old wine! Easy 95+ for me, and my WOTN.
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60s Dinner — 1961 Bordeaux Flight Chateau Lynch Bages, Canon and Cos d’Estournel. Each wine was double decanted for sediment
The Lynch Bages with its dark cherry and cassis fruit all wrapped in cedar, tar and earth notes stood out. It’s fruit benefited from the wines acidity, giving it a freshness that was engaging. Balanced, mature, layered, lovely finish, delicious. Wine of the flight
The Canon was the darkest of the flight. Initial mustiness quickly blew off after 10-15 minutes to reveal plums, violets And earth notes. Fuller bodied than the LB, nice texture and richness. Balanced, resolved, with a lingering finish. Others were surprised how well it drank. I admit to being a Canon fan, had the 1955 and 1982 earlier this year and found this 61 a wonderful contrast to the lighter more elegant Lynch Bages
The Cos had a TS fill, a ruby core with maturing edge. The initial nose showed this bottle had challenges. After 30 minutes still had a mustiness that remained. It’s Palate was cleaner than the nose, medium weight, decent balance and finish.
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World Series Mondo Wine Event (Duluth, GA): Tasted blind. This bottle was not flawed, it just wasn't stored in optimal conditions for its 59 years of life. The fruit was gone and it tasted like a tawny port.
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I had a 61 night, the lineup- Cos, Ch Margaux, Clinet, La Conseillante. Apart from Cos, a bit too acidic & felt unready, the other 3 were mind blowingly good. Clinet stood up against LC & Margaux. This is the best Margaux I ever had. LC is worth mentioning coz it’s like a matured lady, very elegant, balanced & not an ounce of fat. Awesome night!” more tasting note in finewines.com.sg
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A fun wine, showy in its way and nicely demonstrating both the chateau and vintage. This has still has enough sweet, dark, plummy fruit to give it vigor, but the whole package is a little roughly hewn. Lovely cedar, roasted meat, mineral notes round out the nose which has a bit of a wild personality. On the palate, the fruit shows some sur-maturite not atypical to 61. This needs a few minutes in the decanter to really come around, but after an hour of air it starts to break up. Impeccable provenance on this with a very high shoulder fill and a pristine cork. I'd never turn this down if on offer, but there's no doubt that better wines are made at Cos nowadays than were made in 1961.
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Great provenance. I believe this was the first time it was stood up since it was laid down 57 years ago. In fact, this may be the oldest Cos I have tasted by at least 2 decades. The color is beautiful, with a slight amber rim. Plum, blackcurrant and cedar. Speaks to St. Estephe (particularly on the nose) but not a typical wine of the 1961 vintage. Broke down pretty quickly. I know the overall tone of a 93 rated wine seems off- but so was this wine from such a solid vintage year. This particular expression does not make me want to chase old Cos.
Side note: paired great with beef wellington!
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1961 Bordeaux tasting (Wine Watch, Fort Lauderdale, Florida): Started out strong, but really sputtered after a couple of hours. This almost deserves two scores, initial (94) and after lots of aeration (88). It had a beautiful garnet/ruby color. The nose really opened up with time, exhibiting plum, cassis, Asian spices, sous bois, and leather. Had a nice balanced mouthfeel with nice tannic structure. A little tart with high acidity on the finish that tailed off a bit. With time, this wine became very lean and fell apart, losing its charm and complexity. Not really sure what to think of this wine, but perhaps others may have better luck with other bottles.
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The 1961 Cos d’Estournel exhibits a deep garnet color, and expansive, sweet notes of blackcurrants, fruitcake and spicy cigar box, mingling with notions of leather and grilled meat. Sappy and concentrated on the palate, with deliciously sweet fruit and complex tertiary notes underpinned by vivid acids. Unlike the 1961 Montrose this is fully mature.
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As good a bottle of this as I have had. Nice subtlety to the rounded fruit. Perfumed nose with floral notes. Acid takes over the finish after an hour, but this was very good until then.
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Drank it blindly, knowing it was a flight with 1961 and one pirat.
Typical old BX, Cedar, cigarbox, tobacco leaves, minimal cassis notes, ripe tannins with still crispy acidity, everything well balanced, I think a perfect bottle, decanted one hour before, very long finish, for me the most classical Bx in this flight, ranked 3rd place, after Ducru and Ausone 1964
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Mid-upper-shoulder bottle with moist, easy-to-remove cork. Not decanted. A translucent red hue, almost like a Chiroubles, seemed to acquire a rather cloudier appearance later, but it retained a certain sparkle. This is truly a remarkable vintage of Cos. Rose-hips and cherry came through just a little on the nose. Tasting was just a wow! How far has this departed from the plummy, faded 61s? Here was a a 53-year old wine that had thrown off its luggage of many years and come out with an amazing new persona. Any acid had totally vanished, and the tannin was there, but only lightly. What had been revealed was now a wine of 53-like character, albeit more airy and light. The rose-petals sang and sweet ‘cherry-toast’ came over too! Not much black fruit – but then, who cares with a grand vin like this? So balance was a bit academic, really.
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Fully mature and from a very well kept bottle, this '61 Cos displayed a deep, opaque garnet core with amber ageing to the rims. Despite being over fifty years old the wine was still packed with surprisingly fragrant aromas of black currants, tobacco, old leather chair as well as some distinctly herbaceous and minty notes. This old beauty kept evolving in the glass over the course of the hour it took to drink it, opening up gracefully to reveal layer upon layer of dried apricots, caramel, cedar wood and lead pencil. I was also surprised by the firm tannins and soft texture as well as the pleasantly long finish considering the age of the wine. A superb wine from a legendary vintage. Enjoy this great Cos now.
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Bordeaux 1961 - Mini Horisontal (Le Sommelier, Copenhagen): Smokey hay on the nose with a little green bell pepper and misc spices. Mild and pleasant palate with leather but only a little fruit left. Lacks a little flavor but otherwise a very "comfortable" wine. Compared to other notes the bottle was perhaps a little off?
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Perfect condition. Amazing appearance as this was far from having a brick color, clear, not turbid at all. Nose was fantastic with note os earth, smoke and exotic spices. Palate was perfectly well balanced. Acidity was just perfect, silky tannins, medium body. Great finish with a classy character.
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I picked up this bottle from KL back in October, right after they acquired it from the Mahler-Besse cellar in Bordeaux. It was in near perfect condition (one of the CT 61 Cos label images is my bottle) with the fill still into the neck of the bottle. We opened this to celebrate a friend's 50th birthday. Cork was extracted 100% intact using an Ah-so and the wine was consumed over the next hour. It's hard to explain just how great this wine was and it's a testament to the fabulous conditions under which it has been stored for the last 50 years. The color was a beautiful browning red with brick edges. On the nose, scents of loamy earth dominate mixed with lively red berry notes. I was amazed at the complexity and structure still present on the palate with great acidity and lots of fruit still present that lingers to a nice finish. It felt like a Cos d'Estournel from the late 80s that could still hold out for another decade or more. As expected, there was plenty of sediment to deal with towards the end of the bottle. Given the experience of opening and enjoying this rare wine, scoring it would result in an unfairly biased 97-99 so we'll leave it at that. There were 11 other bottles in that case when I picked this one out back in October so hopefully whomever has them has an equally rewarding experience.
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I always welcome the opportunity to sample old Bordeaux, each one offering an education - a snapshot of time and place, weathered by the unpredictable winds of time (and storage). The fruit has since gone, leaving a skeleton of some interesting acidic and oxidative elements, tanned leather, and little much else.
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10/07 Orange rust color - earthen mineral nose - weak fruit initially with structured resolved tannic finish - evolved to a more balanced fruit attack with some complexity and layers on the finish. Past its drinking window but still a fine dinner wine. 90 pts.
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English bottled by Justerini & Brooks A very mature ruby with some teak hints. Leafy and earthy nose with some black fruits behind, and also some mintiness. This is quite impressive initially. There are lots of red fruit on the palate and it’s actually quite fleshy. Very attractive. Very Good Indeed.
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2/11/2024 - dcwino wrote: flawed
English bottling. A bit tired with a hint of Madeira. The only reason why I am posting this note is because of the remarkable concentration and sweet fruit. If this were to cellared properly, this has to be an exceptional wine that should still drink well.
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6/26/2021 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 98 Points
Early 41st Anniversary including ‘61 Cos d’Estournel (George Trois Winnetka, IL): I was so excited to drink and savior this wine for a friends birth year. Did not disappoint. Wow, truly Bordeaux and delicious. All the prior notes describe the wine to a T. Happily, I found one more btl in the cellar. 😎
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5/14/2021 - rocknroller wrote: 96 Points
One of Those Big Birthdays (Margaux's Table, White Bear Lake, MN): Very dark red minus color with a 7mm transitional to clear margin. PNP, drank a glass over 90 minutes. Low shoulder fill with a fully saturated wet cork that released on just turning in the spindle. Like most of these older bottles this needed a few minutes to shake off the cobwebs. Definitely intact right off the bat, but steadily evolving in the glass. This is one of those revelatory wines that certainly demonstartes the durability and ageability of Bordeaux. One might naturally be worried about the the low shoulder fill or the wet cork, but this wine defies the odds and in my experience is not an outlyer. What a great wine, showing its ever changing colors. The nose is filled with saddle leather, earth and a touch of funk to start which slowly builds over 20 minutes into an amazing perfume of pencil lead, tar, soil, dried purple flowers, red currants, red cherry and mulch. The palate still is zinging with tart red fruits on a sleek medium body, cherry, dried forest floor, crushed blackberries, soil and minerals, round medium tannins and a long finish. This was in great shape, and an absolute joy to drink a birth year wine for this milestone bday. I don't think most would pick this out as 60 years old if drank blind - maybe 40, and this has got the stuffing to go for another 20 it would seem. My WOTN in a really, really strong group.
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5/14/2021 - galewskj wrote: 96 Points
Rocknroller has a special birthday (Margaux's Table): Dried flowers stand out the most. This wine improved over the 2 hours it was in front of me, it was a bit odd and lean initially but it rounded out very well, with tons of complexity underscored by leather and violets.
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5/14/2021 - I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine Likes this wine: 95 Points
Kevin's Big Six-OHhhhhhhhh Nooooo (Margaux's Table in White Bear Lake): I guess when you are dealing with wines this old it a crap shoot....aside from storage issues, you still have bottle variation issues also....well, today the wine gods were smiling! This was my first 1961 wine, and I was very pleasantly surprised. This wine had the most complex nose I have encountered. It was perfumed, but notes of black and red fruit, coupled with leather and earth dominated. Later, violets and dried flowers came to the forefront. Unfortunately, this was only a two ounce pour, and once I started tasting the wine, it was gone before I knew it and no time to revisit later in the night to track its evolution. The palate showed a nice mix of fruit and tertiary flavors with notes of cassis and earth dominating, but also showed some bark, tobacco and dark cherry. A pleasure to drink and held up remarkably well for a 60 year old wine! Easy 95+ for me, and my WOTN.
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11/14/2020 - paul195 wrote: 90 Points
60s Dinner — 1961 Bordeaux Flight Chateau Lynch Bages, Canon and Cos d’Estournel. Each wine was double decanted for sediment
The Lynch Bages with its dark cherry and cassis fruit all wrapped in cedar, tar and earth notes stood out. It’s fruit benefited from the wines acidity, giving it a freshness that was engaging. Balanced, mature, layered, lovely finish, delicious. Wine of the flight
The Canon was the darkest of the flight. Initial mustiness quickly blew off after 10-15 minutes to reveal plums, violets And earth notes. Fuller bodied than the LB, nice texture and richness. Balanced, resolved, with a lingering finish. Others were surprised how well it drank. I admit to being a Canon fan, had the 1955 and 1982 earlier this year and found this 61 a wonderful contrast to the lighter more elegant Lynch Bages
The Cos had a TS fill, a ruby core with maturing edge. The initial nose showed this bottle had challenges. After 30 minutes still had a mustiness that remained. It’s Palate was cleaner than the nose, medium weight, decent balance and finish.
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10/24/2020 - Francophile1 wrote: 79 Points
World Series Mondo Wine Event (Duluth, GA): Tasted blind. This bottle was not flawed, it just wasn't stored in optimal conditions for its 59 years of life. The fruit was gone and it tasted like a tawny port.
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3/3/2020 - Wine by Bok wrote: 100 Points
I had a 61 night, the lineup- Cos, Ch Margaux, Clinet, La Conseillante. Apart from Cos, a bit too acidic & felt unready, the other 3 were mind blowingly good. Clinet stood up against LC & Margaux. This is the best Margaux I ever had. LC is worth mentioning coz it’s like a matured lady, very elegant, balanced & not an ounce of fat. Awesome night!” more tasting note in finewines.com.sg
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1/21/2020 - mattiasjansson wrote: 94 Points
1961 vs 1982 Bordeaux (Boston): Light-medium fruit. Long finish.
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1/6/2019 - barrytaylor wrote: 88 Points
med color. tobacco & cedar. old but long finish
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10/5/2018 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Clean aromas, faltering palate.
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4/17/2018 - englishman's claret wrote: 93 Points
A fun wine, showy in its way and nicely demonstrating both the chateau and vintage. This has still has enough sweet, dark, plummy fruit to give it vigor, but the whole package is a little roughly hewn. Lovely cedar, roasted meat, mineral notes round out the nose which has a bit of a wild personality. On the palate, the fruit shows some sur-maturite not atypical to 61. This needs a few minutes in the decanter to really come around, but after an hour of air it starts to break up. Impeccable provenance on this with a very high shoulder fill and a pristine cork. I'd never turn this down if on offer, but there's no doubt that better wines are made at Cos nowadays than were made in 1961.
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4/16/2018 - englishmen’s claret Likes this wine: 93 Points
Great provenance. I believe this was the first time it was stood up since it was laid down 57 years ago. In fact, this may be the oldest Cos I have tasted by at least 2 decades. The color is beautiful, with a slight amber rim. Plum, blackcurrant and cedar. Speaks to St. Estephe (particularly on the nose) but not a typical wine of the 1961 vintage. Broke down pretty quickly. I know the overall tone of a 93 rated wine seems off- but so was this wine from such a solid vintage year. This particular expression does not make me want to chase old Cos.
Side note: paired great with beef wellington!
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1/27/2017 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 91 Points
1961 Bordeaux tasting (Wine Watch, Fort Lauderdale, Florida): Started out strong, but really sputtered after a couple of hours. This almost deserves two scores, initial (94) and after lots of aeration (88). It had a beautiful garnet/ruby color. The nose really opened up with time, exhibiting plum, cassis, Asian spices, sous bois, and leather. Had a nice balanced mouthfeel with nice tannic structure. A little tart with high acidity on the finish that tailed off a bit. With time, this wine became very lean and fell apart, losing its charm and complexity. Not really sure what to think of this wine, but perhaps others may have better luck with other bottles.
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12/3/2016 - William Kelley Likes this wine: 94 Points
The 1961 Cos d’Estournel exhibits a deep garnet color, and expansive, sweet notes of blackcurrants, fruitcake and spicy cigar box, mingling with notions of leather and grilled meat. Sappy and concentrated on the palate, with deliciously sweet fruit and complex tertiary notes underpinned by vivid acids. Unlike the 1961 Montrose this is fully mature.
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11/18/2016 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
As good a bottle of this as I have had. Nice subtlety to the rounded fruit. Perfumed nose with floral notes. Acid takes over the finish after an hour, but this was very good until then.
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11/16/2016 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 95 Points
Drank it blindly, knowing it was a flight with 1961 and one pirat.
Typical old BX, Cedar, cigarbox, tobacco leaves, minimal cassis notes, ripe tannins with still crispy acidity, everything well balanced, I think a perfect bottle, decanted one hour before, very long finish, for me the most classical Bx in this flight, ranked 3rd place, after Ducru and Ausone 1964
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8/24/2014 - KeatingCellar wrote: 89 Points
Getting old
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8/12/2014 - jhtswhiteley Likes this wine: 97 Points
Mid-upper-shoulder bottle with moist, easy-to-remove cork. Not decanted. A translucent red hue, almost like a Chiroubles, seemed to acquire a rather cloudier appearance later, but it retained a certain sparkle. This is truly a remarkable vintage of Cos. Rose-hips and cherry came through just a little on the nose. Tasting was just a wow! How far has this departed from the plummy, faded 61s? Here was a a 53-year old wine that had thrown off its luggage of many years and come out with an amazing new persona. Any acid had totally vanished, and the tannin was there, but only lightly. What had been revealed was now a wine of 53-like character, albeit more airy and light. The rose-petals sang and sweet ‘cherry-toast’ came over too! Not much black fruit – but then, who cares with a grand vin like this? So balance was a bit academic, really.
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8/3/2014 - Wineguy76 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Fully mature and from a very well kept bottle, this '61 Cos displayed a deep, opaque garnet core with amber ageing to the rims. Despite being over fifty years old the wine was still packed with surprisingly fragrant aromas of black currants, tobacco, old leather chair as well as some distinctly herbaceous and minty notes. This old beauty kept evolving in the glass over the course of the hour it took to drink it, opening up gracefully to reveal layer upon layer of dried apricots, caramel, cedar wood and lead pencil. I was also surprised by the firm tannins and soft texture as well as the pleasantly long finish considering the age of the wine. A superb wine from a legendary vintage. Enjoy this great Cos now.
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5/23/2014 - Ariby123 wrote: 88 Points
- Ruby color - Still drinkable but clearly declining with thin fruit. Still has that classic Bordeaux earthy flavor. Drink now. It won't get better.
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3/20/2014 - aagrawal wrote: 85 Points
Bonham's and Butterfield Pre-auction tasting (San Francisco, CA): Aromatic red fruits; a bit flat on the palate, too old. 85
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4/30/2012 - canan wrote: 86 Points
Bordeaux 1961 - Mini Horisontal (Le Sommelier, Copenhagen): Smokey hay on the nose with a little green bell pepper and misc spices.
Mild and pleasant palate with leather but only a little fruit left. Lacks a little flavor but otherwise a very "comfortable" wine.
Compared to other notes the bottle was perhaps a little off?
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9/15/2011 - Lombardi wrote: 92 Points
Perfect condition. Amazing appearance as this was far from having a brick color, clear, not turbid at all. Nose was fantastic with note os earth, smoke and exotic spices. Palate was perfectly well balanced. Acidity was just perfect, silky tannins, medium body. Great finish with a classy character.
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5/13/2011 - Rob MacKay wrote:
I picked up this bottle from KL back in October, right after they acquired it from the Mahler-Besse cellar in Bordeaux. It was in near perfect condition (one of the CT 61 Cos label images is my bottle) with the fill still into the neck of the bottle. We opened this to celebrate a friend's 50th birthday. Cork was extracted 100% intact using an Ah-so and the wine was consumed over the next hour. It's hard to explain just how great this wine was and it's a testament to the fabulous conditions under which it has been stored for the last 50 years. The color was a beautiful browning red with brick edges. On the nose, scents of loamy earth dominate mixed with lively red berry notes. I was amazed at the complexity and structure still present on the palate with great acidity and lots of fruit still present that lingers to a nice finish. It felt like a Cos d'Estournel from the late 80s that could still hold out for another decade or more. As expected, there was plenty of sediment to deal with towards the end of the bottle. Given the experience of opening and enjoying this rare wine, scoring it would result in an unfairly biased 97-99 so we'll leave it at that. There were 11 other bottles in that case when I picked this one out back in October so hopefully whomever has them has an equally rewarding experience.
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3/6/2011 - marc d wrote:
Very much alive, quite classic nose, some fruit left, faded after an hour of air, but was glorious up till then.
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3/5/2011 - Chaz Bham wrote: 85 Points
I always welcome the opportunity to sample old Bordeaux, each one offering an education - a snapshot of time and place, weathered by the unpredictable winds of time (and storage). The fruit has since gone, leaving a skeleton of some interesting acidic and oxidative elements, tanned leather, and little much else.
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8/30/2010 - TEKinsider wrote: 84 Points
Nice color and interesting nose but definitely on the down hill slide from the drinking window. Decanted and drank across 2hrs.
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3/26/2009 - Sticky wrote: 93 Points
Still kicking... :)
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12/6/2008 - davergny wrote: 88 Points
(Cos vertical @Il Corso, NYC 12/3/08) Lovely nose, lots of cedar . A little thin, sharp on the palate. Not bad, but definately on the downward slope.
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10/2/2007 - GA wrote: 90 Points
10/07 Orange rust color - earthen mineral nose - weak fruit initially with structured resolved tannic finish - evolved to a more balanced fruit attack with some complexity and layers on the finish. Past its drinking window but still a fine dinner wine. 90 pts.
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6/1/2007 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 93 Points
English bottled by Justerini & Brooks
A very mature ruby with some teak hints. Leafy and earthy nose with some black fruits behind, and also some mintiness. This is quite impressive initially. There are lots of red fruit on the palate and it’s actually quite fleshy. Very attractive. Very Good Indeed.
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