Red · Saint-Estèphe · Francia
Cos d'Estournel Cos d'Estournel
Scored from 10,292 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Francia (72 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full-bodied Saint-Estephe with a perfumed nose of cassis, dark and red berries, cherry, flowers, earth, coffee, and sweet spice, leading to a smooth, well-balanced palate of black currant and red fruit framed by mellowing tannins. Reviewers describe it as cellar-worthy and capable of reaching a remarkable peak with age.
Synthesized from 10,292Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Um dos melhores vinhos que eu já provei. Por se tratar de um vinho com 35 anos, ele chegou ao seu ápice da guarda. Taninos muito macios, cor ruby aberta e brilhosa e aroma fantástico.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The call of faraway lands. As mysterious and intriguing as a lone adventurer returning from a solitary sail, Cos d’Estournel is slow to reveal itself. Little by little, it evokes stories of distant places, market stalls brimming with unfamiliar fruits, spices and wares, village festivities warmed by the joy of revelers and the setting sun, and sumptuous visions of ladies and their voluptuous curves. A myriad of scents, colors and tastes appeals to the senses. The Grand Vin of Cos d’Estournel is both demure and deliberately sensuous, a fascinating and elegant nectar.
Cos d'Estournel Cos d'Estournel is Cabernet Sauvignon grown in Saint-Estèphe, bottled as a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $175, which puts the bottle in the $120-and-up band.
The calibrated figure is built from 10,292 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 10,520 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 72 French reds.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Cos d'Estournel Cos d'Estournel lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · Francia (72 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 10,292.
