Chateau Cos d´Estournel 1989

JANCIS ROBINSON: "Wine-searcher.com has no price or stockist for this wine that was shipped straight from the château for this Claret Club dinner at Medlar. This was a high point: sweet, round and gorgeous on the nose then smoky and rich and thoroughly hedonistic on the palate. Gamey but not over the top because there is a massive undertow of concentrated fruit. Sweet finish."

JAMES SUCKLING: "A wonderful depth of fruit with very firm and dense tannins. It has so much character of olives, spices, and berries. It's the wine’s freshness and intensity that won me over the 1990 Cos."

WEINWISSER: "Sehr dunkles, extrem dichtes Bordeauxrot, erste bräunliche Reifetöne am Rand. Extrem würziges Bouquet, viel Nelken, Lakritze, Mokka, Dörrfeigen und Korinthen, alles mit malzigen Rauchtönen unterlegt, wilde, eher an einen kalifornischen Cabernet erinnernde Nase. Im Gaumen erst prägnant, mit Luftzutritt dann feiner werdend, eine gewisse Trockenheit darin aber bestehen bleibend, im Finale malzig, dunkles Kandis, mit einer passenden, aber doch merklich vorhandenen Bitterkeit im sehr konzentrierten, kernigen Extrakt ausgestattet."

WINE SPECTATOR: "Complex aromas of tobacco, earth and forest leaves follow through to a medium body, with fine tannins and a fruity and soft finish. Very soft and long. At its peak, but pretty and seamless."