Château Cos Labory 2025
St-Estèphe
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£144.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: % | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2034 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2045 |
| Grapes: 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc | |
Critic scores
90-92 RP, 90-92 NM, 91-93 AG, 94-95 JS, 92-94 JD, 91-93 LPB, 92 JA, 93-95 DB
Critic reviews
"Offering up aromas of plums, dark berries and pencil shavings, the 2025 Cos Labory is medium- to full-bodied, with a lively core of fruit underpinned by sweet, powdery tannins. A blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot and 11% Cabernet Franc, this remains a somewhat structured wine in style, but it's exhibiting greater refinement from vintage to vintage."
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Cos Labory contains no Petit Verdot this year. It offers ripe black cherries and blueberry fruit on the nose, pressed violet and iris flower, a hint of wild mint. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit and fine acidity, the judicious 20% new oak neatly integrated. Certainly better than the 2024, afford this "useful Saint-Estèphe" three or four years in bottle."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Cos Labory represents another step forward under Michel Reybier's ownership. A dark, potent Saint-Estèphe, Cos Labory offers up an exotic mix of dark red-toned fruit, rose petal, blood orange, spice, bay leaf and tobacco. There's a bit more Cabernet Franc in the blend this year, which likely explains the wine's aromatic intensity and strong savory accents."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Crisp fragrance on the nose, red berries and red flowers. Such a vivid pink colour to the wine in the glass. Bright tangy acidity with crisp tannins and a cool undercurrent of wet stones and graphite. Clean and focused, a classic element with freshness at the fore. Streamlined but with a soft grip and texture to the well-integrated tannins. A little serious but well made. You really feel the Cabernet here – mint, tobacco, crushed stones. Grippy, juicy but cool and tight too."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Estèphe; 55% Cabernet Sauvignon; 34% Merlot; 11% Cabernet Franc; IPT 76; a final yield of 29 hl/ha; 13.4% alcohol; tasted first at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin and then at Cos d'Estournel with Dominique Arangoits and members of the Reybier family; Axel Marchal is the consultant here). The third year since the acquisition. Though the vines are contiguous to Cos and they share the plateau, their personalities reflect their very different expositions. This is sombre and dark, with that lovely oyster shell and iodine minerality already revealed aromatically alongside the distinctly northern notes of heather, moorside herbs and dark berries - wild blueberries, mulberries, brambles and black berries. This is amazingly ample in the mouth but soft and sumptuous, though with nothing like the seductiveness of Cos itself. This is a wine with a very singular terroir identity that is so much easier to read in this new incarnation. The tannins are ultra-refined and I find this luminous at the core without ever seeming artificial or polished. It feels very authentic - not least in its natural austerity. Pure, precise and focussed, I love the return to the sea-spray and iodine note that I rediscover on the finish as if for the first time."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Cos Labory contains no Petit Verdot this year. It offers ripe black cherries and blueberry fruit on the nose, pressed violet and iris flower, a hint of wild mint. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit and fine acidity, the judicious 20% new oak neatly integrated. Certainly better than the 2024, afford this "useful Saint-Estèphe" three or four years in bottle."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Cos Labory represents another step forward under Michel Reybier's ownership. A dark, potent Saint-Estèphe, Cos Labory offers up an exotic mix of dark red-toned fruit, rose petal, blood orange, spice, bay leaf and tobacco. There's a bit more Cabernet Franc in the blend this year, which likely explains the wine's aromatic intensity and strong savory accents."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Crisp fragrance on the nose, red berries and red flowers. Such a vivid pink colour to the wine in the glass. Bright tangy acidity with crisp tannins and a cool undercurrent of wet stones and graphite. Clean and focused, a classic element with freshness at the fore. Streamlined but with a soft grip and texture to the well-integrated tannins. A little serious but well made. You really feel the Cabernet here – mint, tobacco, crushed stones. Grippy, juicy but cool and tight too."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Estèphe; 55% Cabernet Sauvignon; 34% Merlot; 11% Cabernet Franc; IPT 76; a final yield of 29 hl/ha; 13.4% alcohol; tasted first at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin and then at Cos d'Estournel with Dominique Arangoits and members of the Reybier family; Axel Marchal is the consultant here). The third year since the acquisition. Though the vines are contiguous to Cos and they share the plateau, their personalities reflect their very different expositions. This is sombre and dark, with that lovely oyster shell and iodine minerality already revealed aromatically alongside the distinctly northern notes of heather, moorside herbs and dark berries - wild blueberries, mulberries, brambles and black berries. This is amazingly ample in the mouth but soft and sumptuous, though with nothing like the seductiveness of Cos itself. This is a wine with a very singular terroir identity that is so much easier to read in this new incarnation. The tannins are ultra-refined and I find this luminous at the core without ever seeming artificial or polished. It feels very authentic - not least in its natural austerity. Pure, precise and focussed, I love the return to the sea-spray and iodine note that I rediscover on the finish as if for the first time."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com