1983 Château Cos d'Estournel

Community Tasting Notes (81) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  2/25/2024 - Purple Tooth wrote: 93 Points

  A beautiful specimen of fully mature Bordeaux from a great era and an overlooked vintage. Healthy bottle at top shoulder fill in my cellar for more than 2 decades, this is one of the lot of wines that I loved/love and bought when I first fell in love with older Bordeaux. The Bouquet opens with liquid earth and flowers and then it greets the mouth with fine hints of barnyard intermingled with flowery fruit. Really classy and delicate looking in the glass, can be mistaken for a Burgundy. I didn't want to guzzle it too fast so I opened a mystery bottle from 1994 (that shall remain nameless, yes you read right, 1994) to keep us company that unfortunately cast a light on the wrinkles on this mysterious lady and wowed us and took us away into another beautiful candle lit room. I came back to this after dinner and realized the wine was still intact and now fully awake. Still floral and delicious, the last 1/3 of the bottle was definitely as good as the first thrid (showcasing more flower shop notes and snapped mushrooms), even though we skipped a beat on the second. All in all, a beautiful wine that is stuck here and slowly fading. Every day, this wine is better than tomorrow. DRINK
  
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  2/9/2024 - oldwines Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Pre-Super Bowl Gentlemen's Dinner (New Jersey, USA): In my cellar since release. Decanted around 3:30pm and served with the second course around 7pm. This was a little funky when decanted, very earthy but not “bretty” with the air this faded. It was also ever so lightly bricked. When served it had lost the funk and darkened to a rich lightly translucent garnet. Quite minerally and complex with notes of cassis, red berries, leather, mushrooms and hints of tobacco and the nose and palate. This kept getting better in the glass until finished. So youthful and delicious. Smooth as silk in the mouth. This was a rather miraculous bottle amount three marvelous and equally miraculous 1983 Bordeaux. Overall, all three wines were very similar and of great quality with nuances separating them. As they sat in the glass, the subtle nuances were visible but initially in the glass they were almost indistinguishable.

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  12/29/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  Tasting dinner. Typical 80ies Medoc. Highly aromatic with tertiary forest floor notes. Lots of struture still but the tannins are now dissolved so that they are not scratchy or drying as in the youth. Drink now and in the next 10 years.

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  9/30/2023 - Musinus wrote: 85 Points

  Dark purple with a hint of peripheral bricking. Aromas of honey, black plum, and olive (takes a musty turn with aeration) Flavor profile quite similar with addition of brandied raisin. Sweet, mature, a hint of bitterness on the finish.

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  5/6/2023 - Windacre in the Slope Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Part of a 83 tasting. Star to me. Earthy and musky nose. Effervescent with a nice chew, with earth leather and a silky finish.

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