1971 Château Cos d'Estournel

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  2/5/2023 - Therdin Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Drank for my parents 51st anniversary. Bottle was past prime but still good. Heavy smell of smoke, leather, mushroom. Started to turn 45 minutes after we opened. Drink fast

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  2/14/2021 - ilee Likes this wine: 89 Points

  PH brought this to our our home hotpot dinner. As I tried to insert the corkscrew, the cork plunged right into the bottle. Haha first time it's ever happened. Made a real mess as I poured the wine out.
  
  I thought this might be an old dusty barnyard specimen, but was surprised to find it was a lively, fine example of mature bordeaux. The color is dark ruby, and the dark berry nose also has secondary notes of tar and tobacco. Good length in the finish too. You never know with these old bottles, sometimes you do get a nice wine in them!

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  6/16/2018 - Collector1855 wrote: 91 Points

  During a walkabout tasting, only brief impressions. Aromas of dark fruit, earthy, the palate is rather lean though.

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  6/9/2016 - rossi.wine wrote: 88 Points

  Not much to add to some of the previous reviews. Well evolved in colour. On the nose quite mushroomy, earthy with notes of dried fruit, sweet spices and undergrowth. On the palate mellow without showing much fruit. Still very much alive though - well integrated acidity and a soft, gentle finish. Drink up. 87-89

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  8/22/2015 - wenwine Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Though it is more than 40 years, the wine still shows energy. On nose, classic Cos d'Estournel flavours but in a mild form. On palate, all the masculinity of the wine is combined expressing it in a more subtle way. It is an enjoyable wine, like an understated powerful Cos d'Estournel.

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