Château Cos d'Estournel

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The Year It Rained on the Harvest

Château Cos d'Estournel 1994 · Bordeaux, France · tasted 10 February 2021

1994 looked like 1961 until September, and then it rained through the harvest. Cos d'Estournel was one of the estates that came through — an unfiltered wine from a year that broke a lot of hearts, opened beside its own 1975.

The Maharajah at Forty-Five

Château Cos d'Estournel 1975 · Bordeaux, France · tasted 10 February 2021

A vintage that was bitterly tannic in barrel and spent decades being waited on, from the Saint-Estèphe estate whose founder built pagodas in the Médoc. Opened at forty-five years, beside its own 1994.