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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 […]
Vinous – Omne Trium Perfectum: Bordeaux 2019s in Bottle
17 February 2022
Château Coutet 2019: 95/100 The 2019 Coutet has a very intense bouquet of wild honey, saffron, dried pineapple chunks and a touch of cold, wet stones, all imbued with palpable joie-de-vivre. The taut, fresh palate is underpinned by a silver bead of acidity (always one of this Barsac’s leitmotifs), offering clementine, peach and nectarine toward […]
Janeanson.com – 2019 in bottle: Dry and sweet whites
20 January 2022
Château Coutet 1855 1er Cru 2019 – 95/100:Golden yellow in colour, concentrated and enticing. The focus is on texture and architecture rather than flavour on the first beats, but it opens to show enjoyable quince, lime, white flowers. Rich through the mind palate with welcome slate scrape and mandarin zest bitterness on the finish. Jane […]
Wine-Searcher – The World’s Best Bordeaux
3 January 2022
Château Coutet Cuvée Madame: 95/100 It’s the benchmark by which other wines are judged, but who gets bragging rights in the fabled French region? When you get to the top of the mountain in any discipline, the next problem is staying there – a challenge Bordeaux is currently facing. As we revealed earlier this week, […]