Chateau Cos d’Estournel Blanc 2017

This is totally delicious, the best Cos white for many years. There’s excellent shape and form through the palate, with a huge intensity of flavour. This has a slatey lick of minerality that almost knocks you off your feet but ends up just making you want more. Flavours of apricot, white pear, tight rosemary and grilled almonds are joined by a succulent structure, austere in all the right places. Good ageing potential. Harvested 5-22 September. 3.17pH. 6% new oak. Drinking Window: 2018-2030. Score – 95. (Jane Anson, decanter.com)