Saint-Estèphe · vintage 2025
Château Cos d'Estournel 2025
Ageing potentialThis anthology wine will offer immediate tasting pleasure from its first years without sacrificing its immense ageing potential.
Why this vintage
- 98-99 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2025 vintage in Saint-EstèpheA dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched.
- Ageing potentialThis anthology wine will offer immediate tasting pleasure from its first years without sacrificing its immense ageing potential.
Critic scores
- James Suckling98-99
- Jeb Dunnuck97-99
- Wine Advocate96-98
- Vinous95-97
The 2025 vintage in Saint-Estèphe
Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched.
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
Cos d'Estournel 2025 combines harmony, density and energy, without any excess. Tasting reveals beautifully preserved, bright fruit combined with a creamy texture and integrated tannins.
Blend of the 2025 vintage
Cabernet Sauvignon (60%), Merlot (39%), Cabernet franc (1%)
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 65 % cabernet sauvignon, 33 % merlot, 2 % cabernet franc.
Terroir
Situated on the edge of the plateau, close to the Gironde estuary, Cos d'Estournel enjoys a privileged geographical position. Benefiting from a maritime climate, the vineyard is sheltered from weather extremes and enjoys gentle natural ventilation. Set on undulating ground made up of deep gravels and clay, Cos d'Estournel benefits from incomparable exposure, with two slopes and a central plateau.
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Texts and documents 2025
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Visuals
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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.