Château Cos d’Estournel 2008

WineMine Description

MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 822; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2008 which is 856. The average score for Château Cos d’Estournel is 906, making this a below average effort for the producer.

When people talk about wines from Château Cos d’Estournel they use words like Fruit, Full, Black, Rich, Tannins, Ripe, Sweet, Long, Tannin, Purple, Spice, Fruits, Fine, Licorice, Exotic. The 2008 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2008 but no other wine from Château Cos d’Estournel: Meadows, Dewy, Scintillating, Unripeness, Enriched, Revolutionary, Flowing, Bramble, Damson, Contender. The wine has roughly a similar level of alcohol for the producer (12.5% vs 12.75%); it has significantly lower levels of alcohol for the region in 2008 (12.5% vs 13.02%). The wine will be ready to drink in 1 years (in 2017) and should be consumed within the next 16 years (by 2032). It normally takes wines from Château Cos d’Estournel around 8 years to be ready to start drinking, and 18 further years to decline.

It represents good value compared to Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Lynch-Bages 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005, Château Pichon-Lalande 2009; but better value alternatives would be Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Giscours 2005, Château Clerc-Milon 2010, Château Pontet-Canet 2011.

MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers average value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.

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