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wine, a 2005 vintage currently selling through UK merchant
Farr Vintners for $200 a bottle, is a Bordeaux white
blend of Semillon and Sauvignon. Despite the chateau's
location in the south of the St Estephe appellation,
next to Pauillac, the vineyards for Cos blanc are located
at the northernmost tip of the Medoc.
The bottle is almost identical to that of the grand
vin, with the label, bottle and foil in green. Each
bottle comes in an individual box.
Decanter website which reported the release is inundated
with comments about the price of the bottle. Despite
the defensive arguments by the distributors, it is unlikely
that the wine would find enough buyers-if the quantities
were of decent size. As one reader puts it, one would
rather buy 3 bottles of Domaine de Chevalier which is
an excellent white wine.
Walking through the wine isles at Costco Wholesale
in Houston today, I thought the $32 tag on Les Pagodes
des Cos 2004, the second wine from this excellent Second
Growth was a very good buy. Coming on the heels of this,
the white is rather expensive and certainly not for
the Indian market where Sonarys is importing these wines-editor
For the report and interesting reader comments, visit
http://www.decanter.com
Subhsh Arora
October 6, 2007
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