The second wine of Cos d'Estournel is powerfully packed with tannins and dark ripe fruit. It is enormously rich and intense while keeping a fine smooth texture. There is a dark core that is going to allow the wine to develop over many years. Drink from 2024. ROGER VOSS

The grand vin is tight and closed, but this is blooming delicious – gourmand but serious, sexy without being overly so. It’s easy to see that the fruit was good in this vintage, and you can feel the precision in its expression. Read more at https://www.decanter.com/wine-reviews/france/bordeaux/chateau-cos-destournel-les-pagodes-de-cos-st-estephe-22735#LxH9Dzqeppo3Hgdv.99

Popped and poured was all this needed. Medium bodied, with finesse in the texture, this soft wine offered ripe, cassis flavors and a hint of cigar wrapper on the palate and nose. It is not a wine for laying down, but for a charming wine with early drinkability, this hit the spot. Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/wine-tasting-note/?vintage=2014&wine=Les%20Pagodes%20de%20Cos

The 2014 Les Pagodes de Cos, now in bottle, seems to be wasting no time in appeasing those who like to drink their Bordeaux young. (And why not? This is a deuxième vin after all.) The nose is open and generous with blackberry fruit tinged with dark chocolate and a touch of mint, the graphite element not evident here as it was in barrel. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannin, very well-judged acidity and very fine focus. Like the Grand Vin, this is not an exotic or flamboyant Cos d'Estournel, but no way would you describe it as lean. There is an easy-drinking approachable nature to this Les Pagodes de Cos, without precluding it of precision and length, whilst the graphite note pops up right at the finish and on the aftertaste. This delightful wine should be drinking from 2018 and over the next decade. Tasted February 2017. - Neal Martin

The 2014 Pagodes de Cos has a fresh blackberry and bilberry fruit nose with a pastille-like purity. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins and tobacco-infused black fruit with a potent graphite finish that feels classically styled and fresh. Very fine. Tasted blind at the Southwold 10-Year-On tasting. -- Neal Martin