Château COS LABORY
5ème grand cru classé

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As the Revue du Vin de France pointed out during the Primeurs tastings, the 2021 vintage is "one of the most accomplished in its history".

The 2021 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 93/100 “The white reaches an excellent level, developing citrus and white fruit notes.”

Vinous (Antonio Galloni - december 2023) : 94/100 “The 2021 Cos d'Estournel Blanc is a big wine-rich, dramatic and expressive. Low yields in 2021 created a white that is deep, layered and quite potent in feel. Tangerine peel, citrus confit, marzipan and a touch of new oak give the 2021 a decidedly flamboyant, extroverted personality."

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The 2022 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - January 2025): 91/100 "The 2022 G d'Estournel is a powerful, dense wine. A blast of dark-toned fruit, leather, licorice, espresso and cloves is front and center. This Merlot-based Haut-Médoc very much shows the natural intensity of a very warm and dry growing season in its volume and overall presence. The 2022 is big, bold and beautiful. Time in the glass releases the aromatics, providing a clue of what is to come with aging."

The 2020 vintage in the press:

J-M Quarin (September 2023): 91/100 “Smoky touch. Immediately juicy on the palate, developing into a gourmet, tasty wine with good staying power. Long, seductive, perfumed finish. Very good.”

The 2019 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2024): 91/100 “G is a well-made vintage, necessarily more accessible, but well-defined.”

Vinous (A. Galloni): 92/100 “Contract perfectly fulfilled with this magnificent 2019, a real gourmet treat.”

The 2021 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 92/100 “Les Pagodes also relies on a high proportion of Merlot, resulting in a suave wine with frank, juicy fruit and a beautiful roundness on the palate.”

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2023): 90/100 “The 2021 Les Pagodes de Cos is a big, potent wine. A blast of plum, blackberry, espresso, chocolate and licorice is dialed up to the maximum. Reader's will find an explosive, almost shockingly full-throttle wine for the year. This feels a bit bombastic to me.”

The 2020 vintage in the press:

Jean-Marc Quarin (September 2023): 93/100 “Dark, intense, youthful color. Moderately aromatic nose, with ripe fruit. Soft on entry, very aromatic in the middle, with a full, fleshy body, the wine glides across the palate, long and sappy. The sensations delivered accelerate in the last third of the palate. It's long and very good. "

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2022): 93/100 "The 2020 Les Pagodes de Cos is dark, sumptuous and super-expressive. There is an element of mystery to the 2020, it's a wine that is not ready to show all of its charms just yet. Ripe dark cherry, plum, new leather, licorice, tobacco, incense and dried herbs all build nicely in a Pagodes that balances fruit richness and energy."

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The 2019 vintage in the press:

J-M Quarin (March 2022): 93/100 “Pointed out as my best note in Primeurs, this wine confirms this status in the finish. Dark, intense color. Very aromatic nose, with ripe, spicy fruit.”

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The 2019 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (December 2022): 94/100 “This is a bargain not to be missed. This discreet cru classé, in the shadow of the stars Cos d'Estournel, Montrose or now Calon Ségur, has been playing its part with precision for years. Tastings of the 2005, 2012 and 2019 show that the wines are more than serious, in a style that is always balanced and classically Médoc. A mark of great confidence."

J-M Quarin (March 2022): 92/100 “The wine moves forward with savor, gaining flavor from the middle to the finish, all without ever marking the tannin. Good length. A superb Outsider.”

Amazing value for money in 2016.

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The 2016 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2020): 91/100 "The 2016 Cos-Labory has a lovely bouquet, quite forward and open, offering brambly black fruit laced with violet. The medium-bodied palate presents supple tannins, a fine bead of acidity, and tobacco and cedar toward the classically styled finish, which displays impressive persistance. This is a wine indicative of a château that is imrpoving, and it suggests that the hill of Cos might have two Saint-Estèphe wines worth hunting down."

The 2014 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - February 2018): 90/100 "The 2014 Cos-Labory has a slightly pinched bouquet at first, gradually opening with blackberry and briary scents, just a touch of graphite the palate is medium-bodied with firm tannin, sappy black fruit laced with graphite and black pepper, quite harmonious wth a crisp and posed, satisfying finish. Excellent, traditional Saint-Estèphe and perhaps one of the best Cos-Labory I have tasted thus far."

The 2021 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 96/100 “Cos 2021 has an admirable structure, with nerve and depth. A great classic, balanced, silky and easy to digest."

J.M Quarin (February 2024): 96/100

Vinous (N.Martin - November 2023): 93/100 “The 2021 Cos d'Estournel has retained a Cabernet Sauvignon-driven nose, with pencil shaving scents infusing the black fruit, and a touch of dark chocolate and loam coming through with aeration. It is well-defined and composed, though it doesn't have the complexity of some of the great recent vintages from the estate. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly chalky tannins on the entry. Showing modest depth, it's quite sapid, with a touch of brininess to the fruit. This is not flamboyant Cos d'estournel, but it is very well composed and lingers temptingly on the finish. Give five to seven years in bottle.”

The 2020 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2024): 95+/100 “The 2020 Cos d'Estournel has a more understated bouquet than its peers, demanding more coaxing from the glass to reveal its gravel-tinged black fruit—quintessential Saint-Estèphe, really. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, white-pepper-infused black fruit, gentle grip and quite a persistent finish. It's a bit uncompromising at the moment, but it should evolve into an excellent wine.”

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The 2016 vintage in the press:

J-M Quarin (August 2019): 98/100 “The best ever! Dark, intense, purple and beautiful color. Intense, fine, ripe-fruited nose. Powerful. Soft on the attack, then dense and melting, with class in the touch, the wine glides between the middle and the finish, ascending in its unfolding, complex and long. It has a lot of energy, and a lot of taste too."

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2020): 100/100 "In my last sighted review of the 2016 Cos d'Estournel, I wrote: "I suspect it will close down for a period in tis youth". Perhaps it is already beginning to shut down, because though this wine was deeply impressive, it fell just a notch short of ethereal previous bottles, despite its"pixelated black fruit" on the nose and "sublime balance" on the palate. I tasted the wine twice thereafter, though this time with a 4-6 hour decant, and this revealed the Cos d'Estournel that has amazed since I first tasted it out of barrel."

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The 2014 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - February 2024): 93/100 “The 2014 Cos d'Estournel has a wonderful bouquet. Compared directly with Montrose, there is a notch more exuberance and precision, with layers of rich but delineated plummy black fruit laced with rose petals and dark chocolate. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins. There's a lovely depth of fruit and a sense of symmetry plus sapidity that compels you back for more. Silky texture, this is a Cos d'Estournel that will give a lot of pleasure ine the coming years.”

J-M Quarin (June 2018): 94/100 “Caressing on the attack, tasty in the mid-palate, a tad austere yet pleasant, the wine finishes tasty and a little more marked by tannin than others. Good length."

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The 2012 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2024): 95/100 “All elegance and refinement.”

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2022): 92/100 "The 2012 Cos d'Estournel has a perfumed bouquet with blackberry, cedar, undergrowth and black pepper aromas all well-defined and focused, with more vigour than many of its peers. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grain tannins, good acidity, maybe a tad strict and dry on the finish, yet I admire its intensity and terroir expression. There was some bottle variation here, one bottle dominated by wood, the other more typical Cos d'Estournel with plenty of fruit."

J-M Quarin (June 2018): 94/100 “Soft from the attack, juicy in the middle palate, melting, enveloping and powerful, very tasty, even if the tannin is a bit present, the wine finishes long and sappy.”

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The 2010 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - March 2018): 97/100 "The 2010 Cos d'Estournel has long been my preference over the 2009. That vintage kowtowed to the crowd and yes, to critics. The 2010 is less compromising but more intellectual. It has a scintillating, pixelated bouquet with intense black fruit, asphalt and mint aromas - vivid and bright, much more focused and certainly less flmaboyant than the 2009. The palate is medium-bodied with a huge chassis; a Saint-Estèphe clearly built for the long-term with enormous grip and enthralling tension. As before, there is a liberal sprinkling of white pepper towards the finish and is exceptionnally long. The 2010 is the finest Cos d'Estournel until the more finessed 2016 comes along. It is a deeply impressive wine but it will appeal more to those that prefer classic Bordeaux to one boasting tons of fruit, as pleasurable as that might be."