CHATEAU COS D'ESTOURNEL 2eme Grand Cru Classe, Saint-Estephe 2025 Wooden Case x 6 Bottles (Ucz) - PRE-RELEASE

Description

The 2025 vintage is showcasing the exotic flair and structural power characteristic of this Second Growth estate. The blend is predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon, complemented by Merlot and a small portion of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The 2025 vintage reveals a dense aromatic profile of blackberry compote, blackcurrants, and incense, with the estate’s signature notes of oriental spice and graphite.

On the palate, the wine is voluminous and deep, with a muscular tannic framework that is remarkably refined. The ripeness of the fruit is balanced by a cool, saline minerality and refreshing acidity, ensuring precision through to the finish. This is a bold, sophisticated wine with the intensity and balance required for exceptional long-term cellaring.

DECANTER 98 points
Tasted by: Georgina Hindle (at Bordeaux, 01 Apr 2026)
Drinking Window: 2034 - 2050
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.

JAMES SUCKLING 98 - 99 points
A density to this, yet it remains balanced and complex, with well-integrated tannins and a juicy finish. It seems to be a wine with lots of fruit, but then it diffuses and shows open-grained, velvety tannins. Intense yet subtle blackberries, lead pencil and hazelnuts. Some flint. Persistent and reserved at the end. Great potential. A blend of 60% cabernet sauvignon, 39% merlot and 1% petit verdot.
James Suckling, Senior Editor

WINE ADVOCATE 96 - 98 points
Reviewed by: William Kelley
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.
Published: Apr 30, 2026

VINOUS 95 - 97 points
Drinking window: 2032 - 2060
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.
Neal Martin, May 2026

JM. Quarin: 99 J. Leve: 97 - 99 J. Anson: 97 J. Dunnuck: 97 - 99 AMA: 97 - 98 Bettane: 96 - 97 L. Perrotti: 96 - 98 J. Robinson: 17.5

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