Chateau Coutet Premier Cru Classe, Barsac 2019
Standard - 75cl
Stock location: United Kingdom
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- Vintage2019
- ColourWhite
- ProducerChateau Coutet
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- Sub RegionBarsac
- DesignationAOP
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN10167922019
- Avg. Critic Score4.3★★★★★★★★★★
Wine Critic Reviews
The pale lemon-gold colored 2019 Coutet is a thrill ride from the get-go, exploding from the glass with fantastically intense scents of tangerine peel, lime blossoms and lemon marmalade over a core of pineapple upside-down cake, candied ginger, ripe apricots and clover honey plus suggestions of chanterelles and musk perfume. The palate is equally electric and exhilarating, prancing around the palate with a whole myriad of candied citrus, stone fruit and citrus flavors, charged by a racy backbone of acidity, finishing beautifully textured and with an epically long firework display of minerals. Apart from all that, it is pretty darn delicious.
- Drinking Window: 2025 - 2055
- Reviewer Name: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
- Review Date: July 2020
The 2019 Coutet has quite a flamboyant, Germanic bouquet with petrol-infused botrytized fruit, though it lacks a bit of complexity and nuance. The palate is well-balanced with orange zest, marmalade and quince on the entry. Moderate depth, and quite linear towards the finish. It doesn't quite deliver the panache of the best wines of 2019 and there has been better Coutet's in recent years, but there is potential here. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.
- Drinking Window: 2025 - 2048
- Reviewer Name: Neal Martin
- Review Date: February 2023