Ch Lafon Rochet
Ch Lafon Rochet
Owned and operated by Basil Tessaron, cousin of Alfred Tessaron of Pontet Canet, and one of the nicest blokes I met during EP week. These guys put on the tasting for the wineries of St Estephe and Paulliac as well as a great lunch in their barrel room. A delicuious soup of some kind and casserole served out of a jar. Beautiful flavours and presentation using their head boards of wooden cartons as serving trays.
Now to the wine. 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot. Text book blend, and it works. Sweet mulberry fruit, lashings of chocolate and nice ground spice. Oak in balance and actually working to the wine’s favour. Tannins are fine and hold the fruit on the palate all the way through the finish. 90 points
Goulée by Cos d’Estournel
Owned and operated by Basil Tessaron, cousin of Alfred Tessaron of Pontet Canet, and one of the nicest blokes I met during EP week. These guys put on the tasting for the wineries of St Estephe and Paulliac as well as a great lunch in their barrel room. A delicuious soup of some kind and casserole served out of a jar. Beautiful flavours and presentation using their head boards of wooden cartons as serving trays.
Now to the wine. 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot. Text book blend, and it works. Sweet mulberry fruit, lashings of chocolate and nice ground spice. Oak in balance and actually working to the wine’s favour. Tannins are fine and hold the fruit on the palate all the way through the finish. 90 points
One of the many elephants at Cos
Goulée by Cos d’Estournel
The third wine made by Cos and one designed to be consumed early. Its not too expensive and is well priced to me.
60% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon and 7% Cabernet Franc.
Les Pagodes de Cos
The second wine of Cos d’Estournel and made in a similar style to the main wine. 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 4% cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot.
Defined cassis fruit on the nose with ever so slight hints of wet-earth and spice coming through. The light-medium bodied palate is really fresh with sweet dark fruit and no signs of over extraction. The wine is slighty skewed towards the middle of the palate but dark plum fruit covers all. The tannin is fine but has a slight resin like character. Finishes well. 90 points
Cos d’Estournel Rouge
A step up from the Pagodes as you would expect and made in a slightly different way. No over extraction is noticed and unlike the Pagodes, the first wine sees no pigeage or pump overs.
Richer and darker on the nose than the 2nd wine but also showing the same cassis fruit. Medium bodied yet with a nice intensity. Finishes nicely with lovely fine tannins and a flavor of red apple skins. 91 points
Cos d’Estournel Blanc
76% Sauvignon Blanc and 24% Semillon and aged in 7% new French oak.
This is the 8th vintage of this wine and production is limited to 1,000 dozen.
Highly aromatic with clove, brown spice and hints of grass. The palate is medium bodied showing grapefruit, citrus, lemon curd and lime cordial. A nice style of wine well on par with Margaux’s Pavillon Blanc. 93+ Points
Ch Phelan Segur 2013
One of the higher performing Cru Bourgeois and a favourite of mine, however, one that I don’t think stands out in a difficult vintage such as this. Slightly diluted red fruits with little intensity. Oak shows through too much. 86 Points
Ch Ormes de Pez
In the same league as Phelan Segur and Poujeaux as a top dog CB. The nose shows nice red fruits but still, they come through a bit green. Green apple acidity, fines tannins, and nicely balanced oak. 87 points
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