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JimHow Likes this wine: 94 points
August 12, 2016 - This is why I love the Medoc. Wood, cedar, restraint, lead pencil on the nose, raspberries, cherries, that whole Lafite-Cos-Sociando-Calon thing going on. When you drive up that far north you almost get that edge-of-the-world feel as you cut through the little town of Pauillac and get up the little hill where Cos overlooks Lafite. Been there once. It feels ancient. It almost feels like the outskirts in Russia back when I was a spy in Moscow, Minsk, and Leningrad in 1990 for the US government. And the wine has that feel about it. The bouquet has been splendid from the get go.
This is just perfect. It is absolutely what I look for in northern Medoc Bordeaux. It has a bit of earthiness to it, but it is that seductive cedar, raspberry, quintessential St. Estephe profile that just knocks me off my feet. And completely 2002 in character. At twenty-nine bucks, that's crazy! 94+ very enthusiastic points.1 person found this helpful 4,960 views