2003 Château Cos Labory

Community Tasting Notes (36) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  2/10/2024 - JohnLI Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Opened with slight trepidation after reading other reviews. However, 4 of us liked it. Notes of black cherries, plums and black forrest gateau. Integrated softening tannins. In it’s drinking window but I doubt there is any upside.

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  6/23/2022 - mike410 wrote: flawed

  Corked 😥

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  3/18/2021 - Julian Marshall wrote: 86 Points

  Like the curate's egg, this is good in parts. It starts off quite well, with quite fresh aromas of dark cherry, and the first sip is promising, with more freshness - dark cherry again, but mostly blackberry. But then the wine turns in on itself, the fruit becomes stilted and even tastes unripe. Sadly, this is the dominant sensation after a bit longer in the glass.
  It was better two years ago. Compared to other 2003s, it could have been a lot worse, there are no sultanas and syrup here, but there's no escaping from the vintage - it was what it was.

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  6/9/2020 - Morrisson Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Bordeaux assez classique avec une belle texture assez soyeuse. Il était assez monolithique a l’ouverture mais à pris de l’expansion Après un certain temps sans révéler une grande complexité. Les fruits noirs sont au rendez vous autant en bouche qu’au nez.

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  2/18/2020 - bevetroppo Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  If you go back 10 or so years on cellartracker you'll find quite a few notes from me condemning my early experience with the 2003 vintage in Europe. Yes, yes there are always exceptions but I decided back then I'd let the rest of the wine-drinking public have all they wanted. I was out.
  
  Now with that off my chest, I have no idea what this wine is doing in my cellar, but I suspect it was a gift. If I had to guess what it would taste like in advance, I would have said, muddy, stewed, baked, fat, or all of the above. You see, it was a searingly hot vintage before growers had begun to reckon with what is now known and understood to be inexorable climate change, where weather like this is more the norm than the exception.
  
  So to the tasting. The color is a deep but dull opaque brickish red, especially apparent for a good inch at the rim. It really doesn't have a nose so much as a collection of chemical aromas that you'd be better of describing as poly-syllabic compounds than anything we'd normally recognize in a tasting note. Trying hard and with a lot of imagination, there is some stewed plum/prune fruit, alcohol, and varnish. No evidence of freshness on the palate, whatsoever, no fruit, and a raspy, hot tannic finish. That's no way to go through life, son.
  
  Undoubtedly someone will serve me a bottle of 2003 Chateau Wannabe in the next few years, preferably blind, and it will blow my mind. I suspect it won't come from here.

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