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Forbes – Forbeslife: The Best White Wines For Summer Sipping
1 May 2022
Opalie de Chateau Coutet, 2019: A classic white Bordeaux blend of semillon and sauvignon blanc is always a refreshing but complex choice for warm-weather sipping. The palate on this one is silky and fresh with lingering notes of ripe peach laced with citrus and ginger. Beautifully balanced and well-structured—pair it with lobster. $65 Kathy Kelly […]
Timatkin.com – Bordeaux 2019 selected bottled GCC Médoc/Sauternes Wines
28 April 2022
Château Coutet 2019: 93/100 Candied lime and crystallized lemon aromas with some jasmine and dense botrytis aromas underneath. Honey and crystallized fruit. Good balancing acidity and depth. Oak more apparent on the finish than in the mouth, and this wine will evolve gracefully for many years. powerful and concentrated finish. Rod Smith
Vinous – The Comedown: Bordeaux 2011 Ten-Years-On
6 April 2022
Château Coutet 2011: 93/100 Neal Martin
Decanter – Dry White 2019
24 March 2022
Opalie de Château Coutet 2019: 92/100 Wonderful aromas – a honeyed, buttery, vanilla zestiness, such a gorgeous nose. Lovely expression, good aromatic intensity – you get that lovely Sauternes aroma – smells almost sweet but you know it’s fresh too. Round and weighty with a generous mouthfeel, it’s creamy – thick with white fruits, apricot […]
The Wine Cellar Insider – 2019 Sweet White Bordeaux Wine Guide to all the Best Sauternes and Barsac Wines
23 March 2022
2019 Coutet: 93/100 Flowers, orange blossoms, pineapple. mango creme brulee and vanilla scents are all over the place here. Sweet, fresh and most importantly, zesty, the finish leans to the tropical orange side with a liberal drizzle of honey and orange marmalade. Drink from 2022-2045. Jeff Leve
JancisRobinson.com – Bordeaux 2012 ten years on – right-bank reds and sweet whites
21 March 2022
Château Coutet 2012: 17/20 Jancis Robinson
Decanter – Bordeaux 2019 in bottle: overview plus top-scoring wines
9 March 2022
Château Coutet 2019: 96/100 Gorgeous nose full of exotic spices, candied fruit, orange, apricot and honeyed brioche. Lovely unctuous texture here, it’s fat but smooth – like thick smooth fruity caramel, quite defined and straight but with a roundness and generosity with pineapple, mango, violet even giving an appealing florality, and these lovely almost bitter […]
AMA – Bordeaux 2019 in bottle
21 February 2022
Château Coutet 2019: 96/100 Coutet 2019 is more like a “modern aesthetics Sauternes” with less heaviness and more precision. The nose delivers a scent of seabuckthorn that only exists in the Northwest of China, coupled with layers of saffron and curry after swirling the glass. On the palate, candied kumquats and dried apricot are adorned […]