Château Coutet 2019

Wineadvocate

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. - LP 07/2020

Vinous

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 the persistent finish. A joy. - NM 02/2022

Beck

Que de fraîcheur, d'authenticité, de caractère ! La minéralité et les fruits créent une belle symbiose au travers de notes de rhubarbe, de pommes, respectivement des parfums de pommes caramélisées. On retrouve cette harmonie en bouche où vivacité, tempérament et douceur sont en phase. Ce Coutet dispose d'un excellent potentiel de garde et je pense qu'il n'affiche pas encore toutes ses ressources… mais elles sont bien là. Il aura le temps de les révéler au cours des décennies à venir. Finale saline et persistante. 2026-2076 - YB 12/2021

Suckling

Wildflower honey, dried pineapple, candied lemon, with an exotic ginger and cumin spice here and marmalade on the nose. Waxy and luscious balanced by fresh acidity. Spicy, unctuous but also delicate. Drink now or hold.