Château COS D’ESTOURNEL 2025

Description

Jean-Marc Quarin 99 points www.quarin.com
Couleur noire. Nez intense, fin, fruité, pur et complexe. Nuances d’épices, de fruits secs et de crème à l’agitation du verre. Ample dès l’attaque, complexe en milieu de bouche, avec un gras fin parcourant le palais et une puissance folle, le vin fond. Il évolue lentement, long, un brin tanique, mais avec une finale haletante, sans cesse puissante, très enveloppée et surtout savoureuse. Assemblage : 60 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 39 % Merlot, 1 % Petit Verdot. Degré d’alcool : 13°25 – pH : 3,68 – IPT : 81 (moyenne plus). Rendement : 29 hl/ha. Elevage : 50 % en barriques neuves.

Yves Beck 97-99 points www.yvesbeck.wine

Dégusté le 19.04.2026 par Yves Beck

Le bouquet de Cos d’Estournel commence par afficher sa profondeur et son identité avec des nuances de baies noires et rouges complétées par une touche d’eucalyptus. A l’aération, il optimise encore plus sa définition en stigmatisant la fraîcheur au travers de notes de framboises puis de bâtons de réglisse. En bouche, le vin suit le même cheminement que le bouquet. Il commence par afficher des bases, avant de laisser place aux détails. Il gagne en largeur et en puissance pour finalement révéler une puissance exceptionnelle ainsi qu’une acidité structurante. Un Cos bien en place avec une magnifique aptitude à autant performer sur la fraîcheur que sur la subtilité et la vigueur. 98-99  2032-2065

Antonio Galloni 96-99 www.vinous.com
The 2025 Cos d’Estournel is shaping up to be one of the wines of the vintage. Grand, dramatic and sweeping, with notable textural intensity, the 2025 hits all the right notes. Even in the very early going, the 2025 is magical. Dark red/purplish fruit, spice, new leather, tobacco, lavender and mocha build effortlessly in the glass. More than anything else, I am blown away by the wine’s magnificent balance. A masterpiece.

Neal Martin 95-97 www.vinous.com
The 2025 Cos d’Estournel was picked between September 3 and 19 and matured in 50% new oak, the analytic alcohol at 13.25%. There is just a touch of CO2 on the nose that soon dissipates, gorgeous black plum and damson aromas, pencil lead and light iodine scents all delivered with impressive delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, a hint of cracked black pepper and pencil lead that infuse the layered black fruit. There is a real crescendo of flavours in this Cos d’Estournel, fanning out gloriously towards the sustained finish. This is a serious Saint-Estèphe that will age supremely well in bottle.

William Kelley 96-98 points www.erobertparker.com
The 2025 Cos d’Estournel appears to be one of the finest wines this property has produced in the last decade. Unwinding in the glass with a deep bouquet of dark berry fruit mingled with violets, pencil shavings, burning embers and anise, it’s full-bodied, ample and velvety, with a broad attack, layered mid-palate and beautifully fresh, concentrated flavors. All of this terroir’s inherent power is present, contained within very classical proportions at 13.3% alcohol. The 2025 is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot.

Georgina Hindle 98 points  www.decanter.com (at Bordeaux, 01 Apr 2026)
Vivid pink colour in the glass. Plush, plump and chewy yet serious in a tight, cool blue fruit and graphite way. Lots of gravelly minerality keeps this quite focused and straight but with lovely fine layers of flavour and fruitiness. Classic in the sense of lower alcohol but still with ripe tannins – a nice combination. Still shy I’d say for Cos, definitely not the showy more exuberant style you can find. Refined but well built and definitely not overripe. Dominique Arangoits, technical director of Cos d’Estournel said 2025 was a: ‘Very interesting vintage, the dry situation arrived early so the vines adapted better. Easter brought three days of rain with 115mm on 20 April which proved vital, followed by helpful rain at the end of August. We started harvest on 3 September – our earliest ever. Nice quality of tannins and colour – we have the benefits of a hot season but with cool nights too, low alcohol and nice quantity of fresh fruit. It’s a mix of styles – ripeness and precocity of 2022 and freshness of 2016. Maybe a bit like 2020.’ 3.68pH. 65% grand vin production.