Les Pagodes de Cos 2009
Blend
69% Cabernet Sauvignon
30% Merlot
1% Petite Verdot
30% Merlot
1% Petite Verdot
Country
France
Region
Bordeaux
Appellation
Saint-Estephe
UPC
0 15643 75491 3
0 15643 42485 4
Tasting notes
A rich nose with a hint of toffee. Very ripe fruit. Rich, generous. Delicious with a blueberry and cassis flavour and savoury on the back end.
Vintage
2009 will go down in the annals as a year with very little rainfall.
The year began with a particularly cold winter, though with very little rain. We could already see that the water reserves of our great clayey terroirs were significantly less than usual. This deficiency on our terrain of clayey limestone, on which our great Merlot are at their best, gave us to suppose a harvest of exceptional quality.
The beginning of spring was very cold and with light rainfall. From early May, one could notice a sharp rise in temperature.
Summer was characterized by pleasant sunny days. Between August 1st and 31st, temperatures were even higher than the average over the last ten years and the famous 2003!
By mid-september, rainfall levels were comparable to 2005. In fact, it is mostly thanks to the very low rainfall that the 2009 vintage is so exceptional.
Thanks to the total gravity system of our new cellar, we were able to control this exceptionally tannin-rich harvest.
The year began with a particularly cold winter, though with very little rain. We could already see that the water reserves of our great clayey terroirs were significantly less than usual. This deficiency on our terrain of clayey limestone, on which our great Merlot are at their best, gave us to suppose a harvest of exceptional quality.
The beginning of spring was very cold and with light rainfall. From early May, one could notice a sharp rise in temperature.
Summer was characterized by pleasant sunny days. Between August 1st and 31st, temperatures were even higher than the average over the last ten years and the famous 2003!
By mid-september, rainfall levels were comparable to 2005. In fact, it is mostly thanks to the very low rainfall that the 2009 vintage is so exceptional.
Thanks to the total gravity system of our new cellar, we were able to control this exceptionally tannin-rich harvest.
Les Pagodes De Cos
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.
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.