Saint-Estèphe · vintage 2015
Why this vintage
- 96/100 from Wine Enthusiastand 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2015 vintage in Saint-EstèpheA hot summer tempered by August rains gave expansive wines, with rounded tannins and generous fruit.
Critic scores
- Wine Enthusiast96
- Wine Advocate95
- Vinous94
- Jeb Dunnuck93
The 2015 vintage in Saint-Estèphe
Vintage benchmark: 93/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A hot summer tempered by August rains gave expansive wines, with rounded tannins and generous fruit.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Estèphe. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
A great Cos d’Estournel with intense yet sweet spices. With a beautiful aromatic complexity, it promises us opulence, relief, amplitude... all signs of its elegant sophistication.
Blend of the 2015 vintage
Cabernet-sauvignon(75%)
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2015 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 65 % cabernet sauvignon, 33 % merlot, 2 % cabernet franc.
Figures from the 2015 sheet
- 225,000 bottlesProduction
Label
Winemaking
Winemaking in Cos adapts to the character of the harvest, thus favoring the expression of the Terroir and this thanks to our new cellar. A demanding sorting of the grapes, pump-over by pure gravity carried out using 4 elevator tanks as well as precise control of fermentation temperatures favor the selection of the softest tannins and the preservation of the fruit.
Ageing
70% new barrels
Terroir
The word 'Cos' means, in old Gascon, 'the hill of pebbles'. The hill of Cos indeed raises, on the banks of the Gironde, an impressive accumulation of Quaternary gravels, torn from the distant mountains of the Massif Central and the Pyrenees and deposited on the limestone bedrock of Saint-Estèphe by the retreat of the primordial river. Shaped by erosion into well-drained ridges, these exceptionally deep gravels constitute a genuine geological curiosity and one of the world's most precious terroirs: they oblige the mature vines planted on their crests to send their roots very deep into the arid soil.
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Texts and documents 2015
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.