{"title":"Cos d'Estournel","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"chateau-cos-destournel-pagodes-de-cos-2009-750ml","title":"Cos D'Estournel Les Pagodes de Cos Saint-Estephe 2009 - 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e94pts Jeb Dunnuck\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2009 Pagodes De Cos is a blockbuster that I wish I had more of in the cellar. A blend of 69% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest mostly Merlot (there’s a small amount of Petit Verdot) brought up in roughly 50% new French oak, its deep purple\/plum color is followed by a smorgasbord of black raspberry and kirsch like fruits, spice box, dried flowers and licorice. With a huge mid-palate, sweet, sweet tannin, beautiful purity of fruit, and a great finish, it’s an incredibly sexy, satisfying second wine that will keep for another 10-15 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e94pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe brilliant 2009 Les Pagodes de Cos actually has more Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend than the grand vin (69% versus 65%) in addition to mostly Merlot and a small quantity of Petit Verdot. As powerful as the Cos in terms of alcoholic clout (14.5%), the full-bodied, round, generous Les Pagodes de Cos exhibits lots of creme de cassis and floral notes intermixed with hints of wood\/barrique and spice. Juicy, succulent and remarkably fresh and well-delineated, it merits considerable attention from consumers. It should drink well for 15-20 years. Oddly enough, the second wine is superior to many vintages of Cos in the 1960s 1970s and 1980s! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e94pts Wine Enthusiast\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery rich, smooth tannins, super-ripe fruit dominate the wine. It has power, spice and sweetness, very ripe. Blackberry and dark chocolate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e93pts James Suckling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpices, nutmeg, dark fruits on the nose, follow through to a full body, with very precise tannins and a long finish. A beautiful and racy wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e91pts Vinous\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2009 Les Pagodes de Cos takes a few swirls of the glass to unfurl, perhaps never quite clicking into fifth gear. Tobacco-stained black fruit, briary and woodland scents eventually emerge; with decanting I suspect this would transmute into an attractive bouquet. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannin, quite symmetrical and extremely well balanced. It is not the most powerful or complex northern Médoc and yet there is surfeit elegant and poise. Enjoy this now and over the next decade. Perversely, I prefer this to the Grand Vin!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e91pts Wine Spectator\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemarkably lush and supple for the appellation, yet not lacking in density, with rich plum, cassis and blackberry confiture notes leading the way and flickers of charcoal, tobacco and singed iron keeping the almost-flattering finish honest. Approachable, but this should knit nicely with mid-term cellaring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2009 vintage starts out soft and seductive on the palate, going on to show magnificently well-defined flavours of wild berries, blackcurrant, and cinnamon. A real treat! The tannins have softened and the wine now has a beautiful satin texture. There is a subtle, underlying warmth that makes it rise far above its supposed rank in the Médoc hierarchy. In fact, 2009 Pagodes de Cos is on a par with numerous grands vins. It is clearly an outstanding, generous, perfectly ripe wine with sumptuous finesse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePagodes de Cos will develop complex aromas that will vary according to the characteristics of each vintage and evolve with time. Proper service will allow these qualities to express themselves completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe youngest vintages—those produced after 2010—should be decanted at least one hour before tasting. Aeration will help bring the spirit and passion of each wine into focus, so its potential can be fully revealed.\u003cbr\u003eWe recommend opening vintages produced prior to 2010 about one hour before serving, without decantation, so their aromas may be released gently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe recommend serving wines between 15°C and 16°C. As they continue to warm up in the glass, they will release their full palette of aromas and reveal their most subtle, delicate nuances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinery Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChâteau Cos d’Estournel, located in the Saint-Estèphe appellation of Bordeaux’s Médoc region, was founded in 1811 by Louis Gaspard d’Estournel. Known as the “Maharajah of Saint-Estèphe” for his fascination with the exotic and his bold export ventures, d’Estournel built the estate’s distinctive oriental-inspired château, which remains one of Bordeaux’s most recognizable landmarks. His dedication to quality and innovation helped establish Cos d’Estournel as one of the leading producers of the Left Bank, and in the 1855 Bordeaux Classification it was ranked a Second Growth (Deuxième Cru).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, the estate is owned by entrepreneur Michel Reybier, who acquired it in 2000 and has since modernized both the vineyards and the winemaking facilities while maintaining its traditional elegance. Cos d’Estournel is celebrated for its powerful yet refined style, dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot for balance, and consistently ranks among the top wines of Bordeaux. Its second wine, Les Pagodes de Cos, and the white wine, Cos d’Estournel Blanc, further showcase the estate’s pursuit of precision and excellence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlend: \u003c\/strong\u003e69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 1% Petite Verdot\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"XXI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42519409885355,"sku":"32250608240166","price":119.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2424\/3053\/files\/cos-destournel-les-pagodes-de-cos-saint-estephe-2009-750ml-984540.jpg?v=1762383964"},{"product_id":"chateau-cos-destournel-st-estephe-2014-750ml","title":"Chateau Cos D'Estournel St. Estephe 2014 - 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e98pts James Suckling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you want to know what St.-Estèphe smells like, this is it. Aromas of spices, black truffles, forest floor, dried strawberries and tar. It’s full-bodied yet pinpointed on the palate with fabulous density and richness. It’s opulent but in a reserved and checked way. This needs at least five or six years to come around, but it’s already fantastic. What harmony and structure. Try in 2022 if you can keep your hands off it!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97pts Wine Enthusiast\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Cellar Selection* This is an immensely dense wine that is going to be a classic. The dark tannins are still lined with wood aging but that will go because the fruit underneath is also just as dense and intense. Blackberry, black plum and damson plum give power and sweetness. This is a great wine with huge potential. Drink from 2028.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e95pts Vinous\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2014 Cos d'Estournel brings together gorgeous textural richness and ripeness, yet retains considerable aromatic freshness. Mocha, red plum, raspberry jam and rose petals are all beautifully nuanced. I very much like the sense of translucent energy here. Sweet floral and spice notes add to the wine's racy, voluptuous personality. Today, my impression is that the 2014 Cos will reward consumers with a long window of pure drinking pleasure. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e94pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2014 Cos d'Estournel is destined to turn into a very lovely Saint Estèphe. This bottle was actually tasted over a period of a few hours. The word \"cool\" is one that reappeared in my vernacular now that the wine is in bottle. The estate is known for producing a more luxuriant and extravagant bouquet compared to its Saint Estèphe peers, yet this vintage is streamlined (to re-appropriate my original descriptor). It's unashamedly focused and delineated. It delivers intense blackberry and bilberry scents, again with a touch of iris. The palate is beautifully balanced with not a single hair out of place. The acidity is well judged and I noticed that after two or three hours, there was a faint vein of graphite that lends it a Pauillac-like personality, no surprise given that it lies just across the border. It will require several years in bottle for the tannins to mellow, but the result will be a very attractive, quite correct, fresh and precise Cos d'Estournel that will bestow two or three decades of drinking enjoyment. Tasted February 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinery Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChateau Cos d'Estournel is a Grand Cru vineyard located in St. Estephe. Its oriental facade is adorned with three pagoda turrets, all cast in a soft golden sandstone. Chateau Cos d'Estournel today covers 170 acres separated from Chateau Lafite, along the southern edge, by the stream between St. Estephe and Pauillac. The gravelly soil, over a flint, limestone and silicate subsoil low in nitrogen, has eroded over centuries to form steep ridges which perfectly drain the vineyards. The vineyards are planted 60 percent in Cabernet Sauvignon vines, 2 percent of Cabernet Franc, and 38 percent in Merlot. Naturally, the percentage of Cabernet or Merlot in the composition of each vintage depends on the climate which favors one grape variety or the other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"XXI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51798301573484,"sku":"32251120250110","price":269.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2424\/3053\/files\/chateau-cos-destournel-st-estephe-2012-750ml-285452.jpg?v=1702451286"},{"product_id":"chateau-cos-destournel-2010-750ml","title":"Chateau Cos d'Estournel 2010 - 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e98pts Jeb Dunnuck\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2010 Château Cos D'Estournel is based on 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc and the rest Petit Verdot that was pulled from just 55% of the total production and aged in 80% new French oak. Hitting 14.5% natural alcohol, this still dense purple-hued beauty offers extraordinary notes of blackcurrants, unsmoked tobacco, graphite, freshly sharpened pencils, and chocolate. Full-bodied, massively concentrated, and flawlessly balanced on the palate, it has building tannins, a skyscraper-like mouthfeel that opens up with time in the glass, and a great, great finish. Made in a much more focused, precise, and structured style compared to the more flamboyant 2009, it needs another 7-8 years of bottle age and will be a 50, 60, if not 75+ year wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97pts James Suckling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifted nose of dried flowers, walnuts and dark fruits. Intense nose. A full-bodied wine, with powerful flavors of blackberries, coffee, dried herbs and spices. Super silky tannins and a long, long finish. Layered and flashy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97pts Vinous\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2010 Cos d’Estournel has long been my preference over the 2009. That vintage kowtowed to the crowd and yes, to critics. The 2010 is less compromising but more intellectual. It has a scintillating, pixelated bouquet with intense black fruit, asphalt and mint aromas – vivid and bright, much more focused and certainly less flamboyant than the 2009. The palate is medium-bodied with a huge chassis; a Saint-Estèphe clearly built for the long-term with enormous grip and enthralling tension. As before, there is a liberal sprinkling of white pepper towards the finish and is exceptionally long. The 2010 is the finest Cos d’Estournel until the more finessed 2016 comes along. It is a deeply impressive wine but it will appeal more to those that prefer classic Bordeaux to one boasting tons of fruit, as pleasurable as that might be. Tasted at the Cos d’Estournel vertical in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e96pts Wilfred Wong\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCos is going back to its roots, the 2010 Ch Cos d'Estournel has returned to Saint-Estephe ways after flirting with flamboyancy. For a while, I was seeing so much lavish oak and extreme ripeness that I could not fine the stones and minerality in this wine. Of course, many of us drank and enjoyed those wines anyway. I really like this vintage for its return to purity. (Best Served: 2022-2040)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e96pts Decanter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarkly fragranced, with chocolate, blackcurrants and violets, ripe fruit and soft woody touches. Tense and compact, tannins with a lovely texture. Nice weight and balance. Silky and streamlined, polished and poised. Long, clean finish with a salty liquorice, tobacco mineral touch. Great structure, weight and definition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e95pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep garnet in color, the 2010 Cos d'Estournel unfurls slowly, measuredly, releasing delicate notes of dried mulberries, stewed plums and blackcurrant pastilles before giving way to notions of potpourri, black cherry compote and chocolate box plus touches of dried sage, tobacco and new leather. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has a rock-solid foundation of very firm, grainy tannins and very lively acidity supporting the remarkable intensity of tightly wound fruit layers, finishing very long and fragrant. Give it another 4-5 years in bottle and this will be stunning!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e95pts Wine Spectator\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn extremely well-sculpted, modern wine, with an enormous core of plum sauce, blackberry coulis and cassis fruit to match the ambitious roasted apple wood-, black tea- and tobacco-infused toast. Dense and chewy now, displaying the tannic spine of the vintage, this remains integrated, racy and incredibly long, offering a piercing chalky backbone that rivets everything together. Best from 2018 through 2038.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e95pts Wine Enthusiast\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a complex and rich wine dominated by superripe fruit. It is a wine of extremes, of fruit, of dark tannins allied to some bitterness from the black chocolate extract. Ripe plums and sweet black fruits are given a lift at the end with bright acidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinemaker Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCos d'Estournel has become, in the eyes of lovers of fine wines, the archetype of a certain style of masculine elegance in which immense power is combined with grace and smoothness. Impressive when young for the intensity of its structure and explosive fruit, Cos d'Estournel evolves slowly to arrive, when completely mature (after ten to thirty years) at an admirable smoothness and aromatic complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Consortium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52993775567212,"sku":"607921119721","price":399.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2424\/3053\/files\/chateau-cos-destournel-2010-750ml-214215.jpg?v=1765942835"}],"url":"https:\/\/redneckwinecompany.com\/collections\/cos-destournel-1.oembed","provider":"Redneck Wine Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}