Pagodes de Cos - Saint-Estèphe 2021

Jeb DUNNUCK

89-91

byJeb Dunnuckthe4/4/2024

Including lots of Merlot, the 2021 Pagodes De Cos is 60% Merlot, 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 1% Verdot brought up in 25% new barrels. It's another deeply hued effort with ripe red and black fruits as well as floral, violets, and graphite notes. Medium-bodied, elegant, and nicely balanced, it's a rather firm, focused Pagodes that will round into form with a few years of bottle age.

Vinous

90

byAntonio Gallonithe4/2/2024

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. Readers will find an explosive, almost shockingly full-throttle wine for the year. This feels a bit bombastic to

Vinous

90

byAntonio Gallonithe2/28/2024

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. Readers will find an explosive, almost shockingly full-throttle wine for the year. This feels a bit bombastic to me.

Wine Advocate

91

byWilliam Kelleythe2/22/2024

The 2021 Les Pagodes de Cos is a strong effort, offering up aromas of cassis, charcoal, dark berries and cigar wrapper, followed by a medium to full-bodied, sweet and fleshy palate that's quite rich and extracted, concluding with a saline finish. It's a blend of 60% Merlot, 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot.

Jamessuckling.com

93

byJames Sucklingthe2/22/2024

I like the currant, spice, white pepper and cedar aromas here that follow through to a medium body and pretty core of fruit with currants, tobacco, chocolate and cedar. 60% merlot, 36% cabernet sauvignon, 3% cabernet franc and 1% petit verdot. Needs two or three years to soften.

Wine Spectator

90

byJames Molesworththe2/22/2024

Sleek and fresh, with a core of damson plum and red cherry notes that easily absorb the vintage's austere edge, letting savory and iris accents dart through prettily on the finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Drink now through 2030. 12,000 cases made.  –JM

matthewjukes.com

17

byMatthew Jukesthe8/2/2022

Pagodes is as classy as the Grand Vin, and while it is a more forward wine, it is controlled, luxurious and already impressively lip-smacking. Not too tannic or too acid-pinched, this is a sophisticated style packed with black fruit and unmistakable Cos DNA. 17

Jamessuckling.com

92-93

byJames Sucklingthe6/8/2022

Blackberry and blueberry aromas and flavors with black licorice and asphalt. Medium-bodied with round, lightly chewy tannins and a juicy finish. A little fluid in the mid-palate. Bright and focused at the end. 60% merlot, 36% cabernet sauvignon, 3% cabernet franc and 1% petit verdot.

Jeb DUNNUCK

89-91

byJeb Dunnuckthe6/2/2022

Including lots of Merlot, the 2021 Pagodes De Cos is 60% Merlot, 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 1% Verdot brought up in 25% new barrels. It's another deeply hued effort with ripe red and black fruits as well as floral, violets, and graphite notes. Medium-bodied, elegant, and nicely balanced, it's a rather firm, focused Pagodes that will round into form with a few years of bottle age.

The Vintage Journal

95-96

byAndrew Caillard MWthe5/17/2022

Deep crimson. Dark plum blackcurrant wax polish praline aromas. Generous dark berry/ sweet fruit flavours, fine chocolaty/ velvety textures, attractive mid-palate volume and integrated savoury/ vanilla notes before a bittersweet finish with an inky plume. Superb tannin quality and should last the distance. 25% new French oak barriques. 12.49% alc

The Wine Cellar Insider

90-92

byJeff Levethe5/16/2022

Medium-bodied, fresh, vibrant, soft and sweet, the wine is focused on its core of spiced red fruits with its hints of cigar box and savory notes on the nose, palate and dark red pit fruit filled, round, polished finish. The wine blends 60% Merlot, 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2023-2038. 90-92

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

90

byJane Ansonthe5/13/2022

Vinous

89-91

byNeal Martinthe5/12/2022

The 2021 Les Pagodes de Cos, matured in 25% new oak, offers high-toned black fruit and touches of violet on the nose, which is perhaps just missing some amplitude at the moment. The solid palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins on the entry, a touch of graphite and white pepper, firm grip and a little spice on the finish. A structured Pagodes, just rather forceful at the moment. It should gain more grace during élevage.

Vinous

91-94

byAntonio Gallonithe5/11/2022

The 2021 Les Pagodes de Cos is a gorgeous second wine. Blackberry, gravel, spice, menthol and licorice all run through the 2021, a wine that is marked by notable freshness and bright acids. Beams of supporting tannin give the wine its energy. There is plenty of Merlot-driven richness, but I suspect the 2021 will need a few years to come together. It is far from an easygoing second wine, that much is pretty clear.

vvwine

90-92

byAdrian Van Velsenthe5/10/2022

60% Merlot, 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot. Dichtes Rubinrot. Die Nase zeigt Würze und einen schönen Mix aus dunklen und roten Beeren, etwas Kirsche, Pflaumen. Im Gaumen cremig und weich im Auftakt, leichter Körper, seidiges Tannin, im mittleren Gaumen mit einem kleinen Durchhänger, doch gegen hinten zieht sicher Wein lange hin und endet im Abgang langanhaltend mit rotfruchtigen Aromen, einer feinen Würze und einem Hauch Blutorangen. 2025-2038 (Verkostet im April 2022. Château Cos d'Estournel)

Anthocyanes

92-94

byYohan Castaingthe5/6/2022

Assemblages réalisés. Très beau nez d'épices, de fruits frais "al dente", de violette, de mure et de cassis. Très floral à l'aération. Bouche suave et juteuse, de la fraicheur, des tanins superbes pour un vin qui affirme son identité calcaire et tendue. Fraicheur et précision pour un vin remarquable, alliant la puissance de Saint-Estèphe, le côté racinaire du millésime et une fraicheur assumée.

Wine Advocate

90-92

byWilliam Kelleythe4/29/2022

Impressively rich and concentrated for a second wine in this vintage, the 2021 Les Pagodes de Cos delivers notes of raspberries, spiced plums and violets, followed by a medium to full-bodied, velvety and salted palate framed by ripe tannins and lively acids.

Decanter.com

90

byGeorgina Hindlethe4/1/2022

Fragrant with soft spicing, vanilla, cedar, cinnamon, dark chocolate with bramble tones and blackcurrant leaf. Fruit feels well worked, I love the texture here - still quite straight and linear, all in one line, but with cool fruit nuances, svelte and sleek tannins and a lovely freshness. Also these spicy Cabernet markers too which are so appealing. Direct with chalky elements that are given lift by the quite present acidity, adding a vivacity to the overall flavour. Good complexity and broad structure. 1% Petit Verdot completes the blend.