Cos D’Estournel 

Benchmark Vintages Back to 1982 

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"Without question the most finessed of all the top wines in Saint-Estèphe." - Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media

"There's a clear consistency across Cos D’Estournel’s wines - the quality is absolutely unmissable." - Jane Anson, Decanter

Cos d'Estournel has been on an amazing run of form in recent years and it is without doubt the leading estate in St-Estéphe. It is located in the south of the appellation on the border with Pauillac and its vineyards are superbly situated on a south-facing gravel ridge with a high clay content, just north of Château Lafite Rothschild. The wines have a consistent track record of ageing well, developing a complexity and intensity that can rival and sometimes surpass the First Growths.

Cos d'Estournel has a "variety of expositions—as well as an average vine age of 55 years—that lend the wine its completeness and plenitude. Soil studies, undertaken in 2003, inform parcel-by-parcel farming and winemaking, as well as replanting, where Cos's important percentage of Merlot is gradually tending to diminish. The last two decades have witnessed considerable evolution...The result? Wines of greater textural refinement and more vibrant fruit flavors, with as much intensity of flavor and persistence as ever. I suspect, what's more, that today's more reductive élevage will see them age very well indeed. Proprietor Michel Reybier is surely proud that two decades of unremitting investment in quality are today consistently delivering some of the Médoc's very finest wines." - William Kelley, Wine Advocate