(93 - 95 points) The 2022 Cos Labory is composed of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot, and 2% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet-purple in color, it features cheery notions of Morello cherries, wild blueberries, and freshly crushed blackcurrant, with hints of lavender, forest floor, and bay leaves. The full-bodied palate has impressive concentration and a rock-solid structure of firm, grainy tannins with bold freshness and a long, earthy finish. This is an impressive first showing by the new owner, Michel Reybier! pH 3.71.

(WE 93-95 points) Now under the same ownership as Cos d'Estournel, this estate has produced a lighter, more poised wine than in the past. That brings out freshness and fine black-currant fruits to go alongside the structure. — Roger Voss

A solid red with blackcurrants, cedar, sweet tobacco and hints of hot asphalt. Full-bodied, this has powerful tannins that are chewy and intense. More structured than I remembered. 55% cabernet sauvignon, 36% merlot, 7% petit verdot and 2% cabernet franc. This is the first vintage bottled by the owner of Cos d’Estournel, who bought the estate in 2023. Try after 2028.

The 2022 Château Cos Labory comes from the team at Cos D'Estournel and is based on 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot, and the rest Cabernet Franc raised in 50% new French oak. This saturated purple-hued beauty boasts a great nose of smoky red and black fruits interwoven with notes of graphite, tobacco, and crushed stone. It's a rich, full-bodied, concentrated 2022 with sweet tannins and no hard edges. It already offers pleasure, yet I wouldn’t be surprised to see this still going strong at age 30.

Blackcurrants, vanilla, roses and sweet cherries. Fresh and sapid, tannins are filling with a really chalky, powdery texture alongside fleshy, almost chewy, but juicy fruit and a cool lifted finish. Clearly ripe but this keeps an enjoyable energy and sense of fun. Feels like they've taken a light hand over ageing and the wine is all the better for it.

Ripe, dark fruits, and flowers show in the nose, with ease. Polished, ripe, and round in texture, you find levels of sweetness, hints of chocolate, and juicy black cherries, with freshness in the finish, that leaves you with just a hint of dark chocolate on the backend. This is the last vintage for the new owners. Starting in 2023, the team of Cos d'Estournel took over the vineyard, and production of the wine. The wine blends of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot, and 2% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2042. Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/search-wine-tasting-notes/?szSearch=2022%20Cos%20Labory

Sleek and well-built in feel, with a beam of violet, iris, red currant and dark cherry notes that have melded together nicely. Shows a singed apple wood frame on the finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2026 through 2036. Tasted twice, with consistent notes. - JM

Last full year under the brothers Bernard, Stéphane and Martial Audoy, owners since 1984. The new team under Cos d'Estournel would have overseen the final ageing of this wine, but it retains that old school, slightly austere tannic frame that is typical of Cos Labory. Plenty of grip and character, dark brambled fruits and crayon, smoked earth, raspberry leaf, rose bud. 50% new oak for ageing.

The 2022 Cos Labory is a fine effort from the château in the year where Michel Reybier and his team at Cos d'Estournel finished élevage and did the bottling. The 2022 offers tons of textural depth and overall intensity, but it comes across as on the edge of overripeness. Former owner Bernard Audoy began his harvest on September 14, a full week after Reybier and his team started picking at Cos. -- Antonio Galloni