Saint-Estèphe · vintage 2017
Why this vintage
- 98/100 from Wine Advocateand 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2017 vintage in Saint-EstèpheFrost struck only the lower slopes: Cos saved the essential on its gravel rises and produced a dense wine, well above the vintage.
Critic scores
- Wine Advocate98
- Wine Enthusiast96
- Jeb Dunnuck94
- Vinous91
The 2017 vintage in Saint-Estèphe
Vintage benchmark: 92/100 (benchmark specific to this estate)
Vintage character: Frost struck only the lower slopes: Cos saved the essential on its gravel rises and produced a dense wine, well above the vintage.
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.
Blend of the 2017 vintage
- 66 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 32 % Merlot
- 1 % Cabernet franc
- 1 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2017 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 65 % cabernet sauvignon, 33 % merlot, 2 % cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2017 sheet
- 225,000 bottlesProduction
Label
Winemaking
Use of a cooling tunnel supplied with liquid CO2. Small truncated conical and insulated stainless steel tanks.
Ageing
18 months in stave oak barrels. 20 to 80% new oak
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.
An offer on Château Cos d'Estournel 2017
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Texts and documents 2017
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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.