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Red
1990 Château Cos d'Estournel
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- Bordeaux
- Médoc
- St. Estèphe
Label borrowed from 1989
Label borrowed from 1989
Label borrowed from 1989
Label borrowed from 1989
Label borrowed from 1989
Label borrowed from 1989
Label borrowed from 1989
Label borrowed from 1989
Label borrowed from 1989
Community Tasting Notes 506
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Bronson Meadows Likes this wine: 93 points
March 30, 2024 - Exceptionally smooth and mature. High tanins - opening to dark berries and leather notes after decanting. Holds up extremely well despite being past its “apogée”.
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mchern02 wrote: 94 points
March 17, 2024 - 2 hours of air plus 2 hour decant
This bottle was deeply resolved and mature. Nose of dark black fruit, graphite, smoke, and tobacco. Beautiful and relaxed palate, with nice lift and notes black fruit, earth and a smokey cigar box. Finish is long and powerful. Youthful or atleast unresolved, and beautifully dry.
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Nontaco Likes this wine: 94 points
February 7, 2024 - Standard, very good if perhaps generic aged Bordeaux. Wasn’t really asserting itself but was perfectly serviceable and tasty over a nice meal at Jean Georges.
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Mleh Likes this wine: 92 points
December 25, 2023 - I don’t have much experience with Bordeaux this old so I was quite careful with it at first but it needed a lot of air. I started out with a slow ox but then ended up double decanting and aerating over four hours. Drank it with a rib roast and dauphinois potatoes. It was the perfect pairing. Dark cherry and cassis on the nose, palate was dark cherry, leather and some cigar spice. Really well structured, nice acidity and perfect amount of tannin for the beef. I would say it was probably a little past its peak, the earth/fruit ratio was probably 70/30, I can imagine a few years ago it would have been brighter. Still, it was a great bottle and I’m very happy to have been able to try it.
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Amerique wrote: 96 points
December 23, 2023 - This is great wine! Rich, deep, dark delicious black cherry/blackberry fruit with cassis flavors and cigar box, leather, and tobacco on the finish, excellent structure, very deep and complex wine, relatively young color, at 30 years of age this wine was a baby. I has at least 20 more years of peak performance.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
8/9/2022 (link)(Ch Cos d'Estournel St-Estèphe Red) Subscribe to see review text.
Vinous
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By Neal Martin
Fairest of Them All: Cos d’Estournel 1928 – 2015 (Oct 2018), 10/1/2018 (link)(Cos D'estournel Cos D'estournel Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
8/7/2018 (link)(Ch Cos d'Estournel St-Estèphe Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
8/20/2013 (link)(Ch Cos d'Estournel St-Estèphe Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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6/30/2011 (link)(Ch Cos d'Estournel St-Estèphe Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Kapon
Hong Kong Killers, 2/5/2010(Cos d’Estournel) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Kapon
La Paulee 2009, Part III, 3/7/2009(Cos d’Estournel) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Kapon
A Mega 1990 Bordeaux Tasting with Clive, 3/21/2005(Cos d.Estournel) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Kapon
The 2002 Romanee Contis and a Mt. Sinai Hospital Charity Event, 2/13/2005(Cos d.Estournel) Subscribe to see review text.
Vinous
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By Stephen Tanzer
July/August 2002, IWC Issue #103 (link)(Chateau Cos d'Estournel Saint Estephe) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
6/28/2002 (link)(Ch Cos d'Estournel St-Estèphe Red) Subscribe to see review text.
Vinous
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By Stephen Tanzer
The 1990 Clarets...To Have and To Hold (Nov 1993), 11/1/1993 (link)(Cos D'estournel Cos D'estournel) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Richard Jennings
5/27/2013 (link) 92 points(Château Cos d'Estournel) Bricking dark red violet color; tobacco, tart green olive, tart currant nose; tobacco, olive, very tart currant, cedar palate; medium-plus finish (based on this bottle's showing, time to drink up)
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By Richard Jennings
12/2/2012 (link) 93 points(Château Cos d'Estournel) Slightly bricking dark red violet color; earthy, cedar, tart currant, tobacco nose; tasty, tart currant, tart plum, mineral, cedar, tobacco palate; medium-plus finish 93+ points
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By Richard Jennings
6/29/2007 (link) 95 points(Château Cos d'Estournel) Dark garnet red color; lead pencil, graphite, blackberry and cassis nose; lovely, balanced mocha, espresso and plum palate; long finish
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By Richard Jennings
3/7/2003 (link) 94 points(Château Cos d'Estournel) Black red violet color; berries, truffle nose; plum, mocha, espresso palate with firm tannins; long finish
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1990
- Type Red
- Producer Château Cos d'Estournel
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- SubRegion Médoc
- Appellation St. Estèphe
- UPC Codes 000001979701, 000004209652, 086454010123, 400009765489, 7010237138011
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 26 (0%)
- In Cellars 4,737 (59%)
- Consumed 3,254 (41%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
foie gras, Grilled Elk Tenderloin, Pigeon, Porterhouse, Wagu beefWho Likes This Wine
99% Like It 148 votes
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- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- SubRegionMédoc
- AppellationSt. Estèphe
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