Cos Winery

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  November 2009

  Chateau Cos d'Estournel 1970

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  Wine review by ntalin

  
  
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  November 2009

  Chateau Cos d'Estournel 1970

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  Wine review by ntalin

  
  

• November 2009

  I have a few favourite wineries on the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario but haven't ... Estate - Stratus - Le Cos Jordanne Any others? I'm thinking I might visit Peller or Inniskillin to see if the big Canadian producers are making anything special.

  Forum post in the topic Recommended wineries on... by HondaJohn

  
  
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  October 2009

  Les Pagodes de Cos St. Estephe 2003

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  Wine review by Serenata Wines

  
  
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  October 2009

  Cos Rami 2007

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  Wine review by Watachai

  
  
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  September 2009

  Les Pagodes de Cos St. Estephe 2003

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  Wine review by Desireeruh

  
  

• August 2009

  Wineboy - did you ever get an answer to that list? And what kind of an answer ... producers like Châteaux are Cos d'Estournel that are considered as good or better than the first growths. Which makes no sense at all if you think about it, because whether they were ranked first,... Read moreWineboy - did you ever get an answer to that list? And what kind of an answer ... producers like Châteaux are Cos d'Estournel that are considered as good or better than the first growths. Which makes no sense at all if you think about it, because whether they were ranked first, second, third or whatever, had nothing at all to do with quality, just price. So why would this concept even exist? 10. en primeur- The campaign to sell the wine before it is bottled and released. You buy based on barrel samples and glowing reports from the critics and winemakers. 11. 2008 compared to 1988- I can't do it but here's what Jancis Robinson said; 1988 / 2008 Average temperatures: May 16.0° / 17.1° Jun 18.4° / 19.0° Jul 19.0° / 20.6° Aug 20.5° / 20.5° Rainfall from Jan to Aug: 780 mm / 658 mm Hours of sunshine: 1,591 / 1,474 The harvest volume will be relatively low, between 5.2 million and 5.5 million hectolitres - while the average over the past five years has been 6 million hectolitres - thanks to such physiological phenomena as a difficult start to the flowering, combined with adverse weather conditions (hail, frost) and the pressure of mildew. 12. Why does botritys spread faster in scheurebe than in riesling- Not certain but it ripens slightly earlier and it's got higher sugar levels as a rule, so that's probably going to contribute. 13. Dessert wine from scheurebe- Can be really good. 14. Too much make-up on malbecs- Make-up? A lot of malbec from Argentina has spent time in oak and the flavor contributes to the overall profile. And maybe some of them use a little too much eye-shadow, which I've never found attractive.    (hide)

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  August 2009

  Chateau Cos d'Estournel Saint-Estephe 1989

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  Perhaps tasting this from an enomatic machine kept it from fully opening up. It was very musty on the nose at first and a dark garnet in the glass. Some fruit shone through but it was very stringent and again like musty soil over top. Through much swirling and some time in the... Read morePerhaps tasting this from an enomatic machine kept it from fully opening up. It was very musty on the nose at first and a dark garnet in the glass. Some fruit shone through but it was very stringent and again like musty soil over top. Through much swirling and some time in the glass, it opened up a bit more to reveal more fruit, but I couldn't get past the earth. It overpowered it for me. Just OK. -Tasted at The Hostile Grape 8/5/09    (hide)

  Wine review by VegasOenophile

  
  
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  July 2009

  Chateau Cos D Estournel St-Estephe Grand Cru Classe 2005

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  fruity, cassis, berries, super soft velvety tannins, very elegant, complex, multilayered, mouth filling and lingering. Just stunning!!

  Wine review by Franz Schneider

  
  

• July 2009

  I spent my summer vacation in New York City and Cape Cod eating and drinking ... I would expect from such a cost.  Playing poker and drinking Champers while my buddies drank beers, I felt a little sophisticated; I thought it would be a worthy complement to my card playing... Read moreI spent my summer vacation in New York City and Cape Cod eating and drinking ... I would expect from such a cost.  Playing poker and drinking Champers while my buddies drank beers, I felt a little sophisticated; I thought it would be a worthy complement to my card playing strategies.  It wasn’t.  Maybe I would have had better luck with a $10 bottle of Procesco or $2 beer. My next stop was Locanda Verde, Andrew Carmellini’s new place in the Greenwich Hotel.  The day prior to my visit Frank Bruni at the NY Times gave the spot a solid review and two stars.  Not sure if any chef/owner would consider two stars a good review, but I debated a friend whether or not a person should (or does a person) in NYC live, breath and eat by Bruni’s reviews?  I was curious.  Let’s think about the demographic profile of the New York Times reader.  I’ll pass on projecting my views, and just give you them right from the online media kit from their website; Median age 50.  Individual Earned Income, $71K.  The latter is an interesting number considering, according to the NY Times, 68% of their readers own their own homes.  Can that be in NYC or the Tri-State area if the earned individual income is $71K (or the average HHI is $114K)?  Maybe I have been away too long, but I thought real estate was expensive in NY!?!?  I digress.  Anyhow.  Enough of the Times audience profile. The restaurant, wholly Italian, from apperitivi to amari, from banquet to bar, it looked and feeled like a popular French Bistro cut out of the American imagination of what a French Bistro should be, but instead of French food, it served Italian.  After living in Italy for a year and eating and drinking my way around, I will say, I approached nothing that looked like this place.  But this is New York, and New Yorkers live with a certain expression that goes beyond the realities of the world (and good for them for that).  Anyhow.  I arrived at 5 pm and by departure at 7 pm, the place was wall-to-wall, its fair share of tourists, hotel guests, business suits and stylish types filled the seats and ate the modern take on crostini and such.  I waffled on what wine to order, passing on a white from Quintarelli to linger over a bottle of Vie di Romans Flor di Uis - a massive white blend that is seductive on the nose, textured on the palate and refreshing on the finish.  After looking it up online, the wine contains (Tocai) Friulano, Reisling and Malvasia.  It is a serious white wine. And an aspirational wine when I think about the white blend I will be producing this year that has its influences in North East Italy. I was off to Cape Cod next and spent three days visiting old friends while putting back some Sam Adams, more Campari and Soda, a few rum based drinks, vodka and soda as the nights drew long and a little white wine here and there (did enjoy a 2007 La Cream Chardonnay, a high-quality, value Chardonnay hitting all the tell-tale characteristics as the wine warmed up in the glass).  When the weather is warm and humid and the smell of sea salt is in the air, chowder, cod cakes and lobster adorn your plate; it is way too hard to think about drinking red wines.  And as noted by the choices above, you can see that I didn’t drink much wine at all.  It was a good escape. However, upon returning to Brooklyn before shuffling back to California, I convinced myself to wine well over my last supper in the City.  I write this on the plane, with last night’s dinner in Brooklyn lingering on the mind.  I visited Franny’s with my mother and friends.  Franny’s is exclusive Italian pizza and wine.  I brought a bottle of Kerber Friulano with me, only to be confronted when I popped it on the bar that it was already on the restaurant’s list.  The bartender was gracious enough to let me know we could definitely open it for a $25 corkage fee (and the waitress was later thanking us for bringing an “Italian” wine; well I had to thank my friends for gifting it to me a week earlier when we ate at Vinegar Hill House).  So, I wasn’t going to let the restaurant staff’s graciousness down by just consuming our wine.  I picked out an aperitif wine, a 500mL bottle of Edi Kante Chardonnay, 2005. I was excited to try this wine, been reading about Kante for some time but never experienced his wines in full.  I will say the Chardonnay was subtle, was shy and stony, was on the knife-edge of elegant, rusty, honeyed ageiness. I kept sticking my nose in the glass and tried to extract more from the wine and the wine responded, drawing me deeper and bottoming out; enticing me to come back another time.  This is the essence of a great wine - it lingers and leaves you with a desire for more.  Unfortunately, 500 mL and four people doesn’t account for much, but I will be back.  Onto the Kerber. Here’s the thing I have learned with some artisanal white wines from Friuli (and I should have taken this learning into account), there tends to be a period after bottling, what I have found to be about two years, that could be considered a ‘dumb’ period in the wine.  The wine is completely shut down, a bit backward and turning in on itself.  There is no fruit, just creamy, reductive characters and shyness.  I am baffled by this and need to explore it further; and when I have the ‘winemaker’s’ answer, I will report in full. After sharing four or five appetizers from eggplant with golden raisin and pine nuts lathered in oil to artichoke crostini, we moved on to our pizzas and a bottle of 2006 Cos Cerasuolo di Vittoria “Pithos”.  The Pithos is made in terracotta amphora housed under ground and goes after all the ancient Roman winemaking techniques via the Sicilian grape varieties - Nero d’Avola and Frappato.  The wine jumped out of the bottle immediately with spicy red licorice wrapped in barnyard meat and funk. There was a touch of dried herbs, a la vermouth in the mouth and again a spicy, bitter cherry finish on rather soft tannin and good acid backbone.  The wine, which I haven’t consumed since I lived in Sicily, was quite a treat and a good value considering a bottle of Radikon or Gravner made in similar style will cost you almost double on the retail shelf. So, that is it.  My plane is on descent into San Francisco airport.  And I am happy to be back in California, counting the days until harvest has me knee deep in red and white wine grapes.  T-minus…. Dan Petroski is Assistant Winemaker at Larkmead Vineyards in Napa Valley. Dan has an MBA from New York University and worked as an Ad Exec in New York for several years, before switching it up and trading his suit for a move out wes    (hide)

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