COUTET (BARSAC) 2007 750ML
Product price
$85.99
Description
This has a relatively simple but crisp nose with dried honey, apricot, quince and a touch of almond. The palate is well balanced with good acidity and botrytis, pure, quite linear with white peach, pear, a touch of mandarin and citrus acidity cutting through its viscous texture towards the finish.
Product Details
| Category | High End Fine Wine |
| Size | 750 ml |
Expert Reviews
Offers fascinating aromas of cooked apple, clove and honey that follow through to a full body, with superlively acidity and spicy blanched almond and honey character on the palate. Long and powerful, showing amazing botrytis character, with so much spice and richness, yet also freshness. Even better than the superb 2006. Best after 2015.
Tasted single blind against its peers. The Chateau Coutet 2007 has a very intense bouquet with lemon curd and orange blossom mixed with clear honey. There is impressive precision here, almost crystalline. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine viscous entry, great weight and intensity with racy acidity. There is also much tension cutting through the layers of viscous fruit on the sorbet-like finish. This is a typical Coutet through and through and it should age effortlessly over 20-30 years. Tasted January 2011.
The 2007 Coutet has a taut and well-defined bouquet of dried honey, saffron and touches of crushed stone, a hint of orange pith emerging with time. The palate is well balanced with fine acidity, a tang of marmalade and barley sugar with a lively and quite persistent, detailed finish. Very fine. Tasted at the 2007 horizontal in Sauternes.
The aromas are intensely sweet, full of orange marmalade and honey. The palate goes more for spice, with oranges and brown sugar allied to fresh fruits, apricots and lychees. The final flavors are delicious and enticing.