Cos d’Estournel 2025, Iconic

From July onwards, relentless efforts on the estate’s gravel soils made it possible to maintain essential water supplies.
It had been decades since harvest had begun so early, and this highly unusual precocity allowed the grapes to reach consummate ripeness.

Cos d’Estournel 2025 is harmonious, dense and full of verve, without any excess. Truly magnificent, it offers splendid aromas of fruit, creamy texture and velvety tannins.

It is a legendary vintage, one that promises immediate delight early on while also offering great cellaring potential.

James Suckling – 98-99/100

A density to this, yet it remains balanced and complex, with well-integrated tannins and a juicy finish. Great potential. 

Vinous (Antonio Galloni) – 96-99/100

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. More than anything else, I am blown away by the wine’s magnificent balance. A masterpiece.

Wine Advocate (William Kelley) – 96-98/100

The 2025 Cos d’Estournel appears to be one of the finest wines this property has produced in the last decade. All of this terroir’s inherent power is present, contained within very classical proportions at 13.3% alcohol.

Cos d’Estournel’s “other grand vin,” Pagodes de Cos is crafted from vines that are forty years old on average, cultivated on a specific, dedicated terroir.

The soils—some favoring late development—yielded excellent results for this early-developing vintage, as they made it possible to wait for grapes to reach ideal ripeness.

The vintage is captivating for its vibrancy, intensity and remarkable length. Mouth-watering on the palate, it is underpinned by the tension and precision of the estate’s Merlot.

James Suckling – 94-95/100

A juicy and velvety second wine of Cos, with spices and hazelnuts that highlight the dark fruit in this wine. Shows structure, but is integrated and polished.

Vinous (Antonio Galloni) – 92-94/100

The 2025 Les Pagodes de Cos is a huge, somber wine. Ample and quite dense, the 2025 is super concentrated from start to finish.

Wine Advocate (William Kelley) – 91-93/100

The 2025 Les Pagodes de Cos is shaping up beautifully, wafting from the glass with notes of blackberries, cassis and licorice framed by a touch of toasty oak.

Harvest of this extremely responsive vineyard in the northern Médoc, a veritable bellwether, began on September 1, setting the tone for the vintage.
First introduced in 2012, high-density plantings of Cabernet Sauvignon now bring complexity and depth to the wine.

Thanks to perfectly preserved acidity and moderate alcohol content, the vintage is distinctive for its tender, delicately sweet mouthfeel, velvety tannins and remarkable energy.

James Suckling – 93-94/100

Very fine tannins with a crunchy character and creamy texture, showing finesse and polish.

Vinous (Antonio Galloni) – 90-92/100

The 2025 G d’Estournel is a gorgeous Médoc. Dark, pliant and super expressive, the 2025 has so much to offer. All the éléments are so well balanced. This is beautifully done.

Harvested earlier than ever before since the creation of Cos d’Estournel Blanc in 2005, the clay-limestone terroirs excelled in the hot, dry weather.

Despite greater sensitivity to high temperatures, the estate’s gravel soils held their own thanks to a limited harvest. The Gironde Estuary contributed a certain equilibrium, tempering excessively sunny conditions.

The vintage is marked by a decisive portion of Sémillon that brings depth and texture to the blend, and the grapes grown on limestone terroirs deliver great freshness and remarkable tension, for a very distinguished, elegant wine with radiant balance.

James Suckling – 98-99/100

An incredible wine with electrifying acidity and great depth and concentration. Special white. Best ever?

Vinous (Antonio Galloni) – 90-93/100

The 2025 Cos d’Estournel Blanc is a potent, driving dry white. There’s gorgeous mid-palate richness here that just needs time to emerge.

Top-grafted with Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon in 2020, the limestone-clay terroirs of the northern Médoc have now reached full yield and count among the core components of the blend, a lovely counterpoint to the original gravel terroirs.

Carefully managed yields bring remarkable density and richness to the vintage. The fruit of more than twenty years’ experience crafting white wines, Pagodes de Cos Blanc 2025 is singularly succulent and approachable.

Sémillon brings roundness to the wine, while grapes cultivated on limestone soils deliver freshness and balance.

James Suckling – 93-94/100

A layered white with sliced lemons and lemon peel, with some lime as well as honeysuckle. Medium-bodied with plenty of texture and length.