Cos d'Estournel
Jean-Guillaume Prats, like a number of his colleagues in the Medoc, described 2002 as a vintage with extremely high tannins (an "index of polyphenols" of 90, a very high reading), high alcohol (at 13.4% without chaptalization or use of concentrating techniques, the highest ever at Cos) and high acidity (3.9 grams per liter with a pH of 3.68). "Everything was excessive but the components taken together give a very good balance," he noted. The vines here did not suffer from hydric stress, Prats insisted, and for the first time all of the petit verdot and cabernet franc went into the grand vin Estate-wide production was under 33 hectoliters per hectare following severe selection of the estate's merlot, but more like 25 for the parcels used to make Cos. The estate carried out a "violent, rapid extraction from perfectly ripe grapes," taking the wine off its skins quickly to avoid getting drier tannins and then including only about 3% press wine in the final blend. Prats, who was justifiedly proud of his '02, was considering waiting until September to price the wine, hoping for "a better world situation."
From The Annual Red Bordeaux Report (May 2003) by Stephen Tanzer
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