Château Cos d'Estournel, 2025
Château Cos d'Estournel, 2025
- 75cl
- 14%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot
- Organic
- Biodynamic
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Est. delivery in 2028.
Château Cos d'Estournel stands apart in Saint-Estèphe with its exotic pagodas and equally distinctive wines. This is Left Bank classicism with a twist of oriental spice, built from prime gravelly soils that sit almost opposite Lafite across the Gironde.
What the critics say:
"Deep dark ruby garnet, opaque core, violet reflections, delicate edge brightening. Delicate notes of licorice, black cherries, cassis, fine nougat, delicate herbal spice, some precious wood. Complex, taut, tightly woven, ripe, firm tannins, mineral, longlasting, dark berry finish, great length, black cherries, mineral-salty aftertaste, sure maturity potential."
The vineyards sit on deep gravel beds mixed with clay and limestone, positioned on a slight rise that offers excellent drainage and sun exposure. This terroir sits almost directly across the Gironde estuary from Lafite, sharing similar geological foundations but with the cooler climate influence of Saint-Estèphe. The proximity to the estuary moderates temperatures while the gravel soils retain heat, creating ideal conditions for slow, even ripening that builds both power and elegance into the wines.
Saint-Estèphe is the northernmost and traditionally the most austere of the Médoc's great communes, known for producing structured, age-worthy wines. The appellation's cooler climate and higher proportion of clay soils typically yield wines with more obvious tannins and acidity than Pauillac or Saint-Julien. However, estates like Cos d'Estournel, positioned on the finest gravelly sites closest to the Gironde, can achieve remarkable elegance while retaining Saint-Estèphe's characteristic power and longevity.
The 2025 Bordeaux vintage emerged from one of the most demanding growing seasons in recent memory — the earliest budbreak since 1989, June temperatures second only to 2003 since records began, and an unusually early harvest beginning in August for the whites. Conditions that should have produced heavy, overripe wines. They didn't. Decanter's Georgie Hindle, who tasted close to 200 wines ahead of the formal campaign, describes "exceptional concentration, aromatic purity and a freshness that contradicts the record-breaking heat.
The early critical consensus places 2025 stylistically between the precision of 2020 and the structure of 2016, with the brightness of 2023 — a combination that suggests a very serious vintage indeed. Yields are dramatically low, the smallest crop since 1991, with production across the Gironde running around 15% below the five-year average. The quality is here. There simply isn't very much of it.
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