Château Cos d'Estournel, 2025 - Magnum
Château Cos d'Estournel, 2025 - Magnum
- 150cl
- 14%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot
- Organic
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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 91-hectare vineyard sits on the famous Cos hill, Saint-Estèphe's highest point, with deep gravel beds over clay and limestone subsoils. This elevation provides excellent drainage while the clay retains moisture during dry periods, creating ideal conditions for slow, even ripening. The proximity to the Gironde estuary moderates temperature extremes, while the gravel soils reflect heat upward to aid Cabernet Sauvignon ripening. This terroir produces wines with remarkable structure and longevity, combining power with an elegant mineral backbone that defines great Cos d'Estournel.
Saint-Estèphe is the northernmost and most austere of the Médoc's great communes, known for producing the Left Bank's most structured and age-worthy wines. The appellation's cooler climate and higher proportion of clay soils create wines with firmer tannins and greater acidity than neighbouring Pauillac or Saint-Julien. Saint-Estèphe demands patience, typically requiring a decade or more to show its true character. The commune's five classified growths, led by Cos d'Estournel and Montrose, demonstrate how this challenging terroir rewards those who understand its rhythm.
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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