The 2020 Cos d'Estournel, made from 62% Cabernet Sauvignon and 38% Merlot, showcases a stunning balance of richness and freshness. Its nose is powerful, with blackcurrant, blackberry, nutmeg, and spices, along with lively mineral notes. The full-bodied wine is framed by fine tannins, offering structure and depth. Despite its boldness, the wine maintains a remarkable freshness and a long, complex finish. This vintage combines opulence with verve, making it a quintessential expression of the estate's terroir. It will develop beautifully with age, with optimal drinking starting around 2028.

Decanter | D 99
Published: Feb 24, 2023
Drink: 2025-2065

A first-growth level wine. With aristocratic ease it conveys nimble energy and sneaky sensuality. Pencil lead, white tobacco, cassis, juicy blackberry and cherry gorgeously delineated with refined tannins providing impressive structure for long-term cellaring. The pH is the highest since 2003, but you get neither heat nor imbalance. Impressive dry extract and rather 'normal' alcohol at 13.5% evokes a positively classic feel, leading to a subtle yet super-long finish. For owner Michel Reybier, the vintage marks 20 years of 'passion at the helm'. Comes encased in a uniquely gold-coloured engraved bottle with the phrase 'C’était Cos sinon rien' - Cos or nothing else.

Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Full
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 62% Cabernet Sauvignon 38% Merlot

Jamessuckling.com | JS 98
Published: Mar 31, 2023

A brooding and deep wine just on the nose, with blackcurrants, redcurrants, spices such as cardamom and nutmeg, as well as black truffles with earth. Complex. Full-bodied with fine yet chewy tannins, that are wonderfully interwoven. Very structured and long. Needs five to six years to come around. 62% cabernet and 38% merlot. Try after 2028.

The Wine Advocate | RP 94
Published: Apr 6, 2023
Drink: 2025-2045

The 2020 Cos d'Estournel is a bold, demonstrative wine, bursting with aromas of cassis, dark berries and plum liqueur mingled with exotic spices, burning embers and petals, framed by a generous application of creamy new oak. Full-bodied, broad and low acid/high pH in style, it's rich and extracted, with a layered, mid-palate and a long, clove-inflected finish. While it isn't anywhere near as extreme as the 2009, the 2020 does appear to mark a move back toward a more turbo-charged style after Cos d'Estournel's shift toward elegance, exemplified by the brilliant 2016—but perhaps that's merely an illusion created by the vintage?

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 16.5
Published: Feb 15, 2024

Tasted blind. Very dark crimson. Lightly spicy dark fruit. Relatively light-bodied with super-fine tannins. Rather delicate for a 2020, but all in balance. The tannins supple and harmonious even though this needs time.

Estournel.com

CABERNET SAUVIGNON : 62%
MERLOT : 38%

The 2020 vintage of Cos d’Estournel offers a stunning balance between extraordinary richness and surprising freshness.
Its nose offers powerful aromas of blackcurrant, blackberry, nutmeg, black tea and spices alongside vivacious mineral notes.
The vintage’s opulence finds excellent balance against an uncommon verve, making Cos d’Estournel 2020 a quintessential expression of our terroir.

Its nose offers powerful aromas of blackcurrant, blackberry, nutmeg, black tea and spices alongside vivacious mineral notes.

The vintage's opulence finds excellent balance against an uncommon verve, making Cos d?Estournel 2020 a quintessential expression of our terroir.