SF | Deep saturated colour with a beguiling aromatic, with herbs and dark fruit dancing a midnight pas de deux; very intriguing ; very Cos! The palate is refined and broad; elegant and concentrated; the herbal nuances, if anything accentuated, notes of thyme and licorce impeding gracefully; the acidity etched beautifully across the palate, the tannins both adamantine and beautifully composed. A very impressive Cos! 96
AJ | Dark, saturated black-red. Warm, lush, exotic, rich and beguiling: such a contrast to the rigorous purity and fruit singularity of so many wines in 2020. I have to say I enjoy it enormously: the fruit is still at the core of this wine (though it is multi-allusive fruit rather than a blackcurrant laser beam), and there is so much fretwork built around it that you could spend 20 happy minutes just sniffing. Unusual for the vintage, but terrifically successful, brave in the current Zeitgeist, and far more subtle and more successful than the lumpen crassness of the 2009. Aromatically, that is. I'm not quite so convinced on the palate, as I struggle just a little to find the fruit core here; it's the opposite to Calon Segur in that sense. But maybe I'm worrying unduly; there is still a firm fruit core, and all of the other brocading brings huge pleasure. The tannins are also very fine and I welcome that in these tannin-shy times. A super wine; a great talking point; and a reference for the vintage.Drink Dates: 2027 - 2042.