Les Pagodes de Cos

2010

Blend

62% Cabernet Sauvignon
38% Merlot

Country

France

Region

Bordeaux

Appellation

Saint-Estephe

UPC

0 15643 58159 5

New

Verified Stock

12 /750mL

1561-10

Product Ratings

Wine Advocate 93pt

Probably the best second wine ever made at Cos (although the 2009 should not be discounted), the 2010 Les Pagodes de Cos is a blend of 62% Cabernet Sauvignon and 38% Merlot finishing at 14% natural alcohol. This wine exhibits beautiful, silky tannins as well as sweet, rich mulberry and black currant fruit with hints of spring flowers, licorice and subtle toast. A full-bodied, opulent and -ideal- second wine, most people who have tasted it would probably agree that it is actually better than many vintages of Cos d-Estournel from the 1960s and 1970s. Drink it over the next 10-15 years.

by Wine Advocate, 2013

Wine Spectator 90pt

Bright loganberry and blackberry fruit pumps along, while hints of licorice root, singed apple wood and charcoal chime in on the finish. Pleasantly firm, open and accessible, this is engaging and lively but a bit shy on stuffing overall. Drink now through 2023.

by Wine Spectator, 2013

Vintage

The 2010 vintage is the result of an exceptional combination of dry weather – 2010 was the driest year of the decade – and of rather cool temperatures – with the coldest May for five years.

Vineyard

Les Pagodes de Cos is, strictly speaking, Cos d'Estournel's second wine. The vines that produce it are eventually used for the Grand Vin which is an 1855 Grand Cru Classé. They are grown on the same terroir and are treated in the same way.
They are simply younger and their roots have yet to grow to their full depth in the gravelly soil. Powerful, very aromatic, long on the palate, with a very persistent finish, Les Pagodes de Cos is a wine of refinement and pleasure, to be drunk within ten years of its bottling at the chateau.

Harvest

Merlot were harvested from September 27th to October 3rd and the Cabernet Sauvignon were harvested from October 5th to October 10th.

Viticulture

These weather conditions produced a late, extended flowering period. The flowering, which was disrupted in some instances, resulted in significant flower abortion of the Merlot. One of the consequences of this was relatively low yields.
Weather conditions in the first half of July (summer temperatures but not a heat wave), allowed the veraison, which had been slowed down, to quickly be completed.
The very low rainfall this year (fairly close to that of 2005) resulted in small berries and very well-ripened tannins.

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