94-96 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

The 2022 Pagodes De Cos is head-turning good, and it’s going to challenge the 2009 as the greatest vintage for this cuvée to date. Based on 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 49% Merlot, and 1% Cabernet Franc, this huge, opulent, full-bodied beauty has terrific purity in its cassis and blueberry fruits as well as notes of graphite, scorched earth, and tobacco. With sweet tannins, a layered, seamless mouthfeel, and a gorgeous finish, this is an incredible second wine that readers will love.

94-95 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

This is impressive, big and very structured at the beginning, but then it opens and spreads out with ultra-fine tannins that caress the palate. Really opens at the end and finds its weightless state. Serious. 50% cabernet sauvignon and 49% merlot, 1% cabernet franc.

92-94 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2022 Pagodes d’Estournel is a very sexy wine. Rich, ample and engaging, the 2022 makes a very strong opening impression. Black cherry, plum, licorice, spice and chocolate are front and center. This flashy, radiant Saint-Estèphe is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Firm, chocolatey tannins sustain the finish.

94 Georgina Hindle - Decanter

Strong and heady nose, so aromatically expressive, smells quite potent. Supple and agile, generous and friendly, juicy and sweet with a sour tang and clean stoney texture. The tannins are super fine but supportive and softly gripping in al the right places. Sensuous, but fun - so much personality and style. I love the sweet core, the brightness and vibrancy. Electric but there’s depth and concentration too with a stony undercurrent that puts you squarely in St-Estephe. Absolutely stunning - a top buy! 3.05 total acidity. 3.72pH. 83 IPT. 1% Cabernet Franc completes the blend.

93 Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux

A hit of olive, bitter chocolate and salted caramel opens things up here, along with brambled fruits and plentiful tannins. 3.72ph, 20% new oak. Harvest September 7 to 23. 33% of the crop used in Pagodes this year, instead of the usual 50%, with all the rest in the 1st wine. 33hl/h yield. Blend finalised early December.

90-92 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Independent

The 2022 Pagodes de Cos, 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 49% Merlot, and 1% Cabernet Franc, is deep garnet-purple in color. It charges out with energetic notes of crushed blackberries, blackcurrant pastilles, and juicy black plums, giving way to notions of pencil shavings, tapenade, lavender, and cracked black pepper. The medium to full-bodied palate is bright and refreshing, deliver a solid backbone of firm, grainy tannins and plenty of freshness, finishing long and minerally.

93 Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous Media

The 2023 Sauvignon Blanc is light in body but dense in concentration because of low yields. It's almost silvery in color and restrained due to hand-picking, leading to pure grapefruit, passion fruit and nectarine, all delivered with focus and punch. The finish is long, precise and sinewy. (RG)

92 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Napa Cabernet tamed by a touch of Malbec. Supple tannins surround the palate. Layers of juicy black currant, dark plum and hints of espresso, with well-integrated notes of baking spice. Effortlessly bold.

91 Wine Enthusiast

With 10% Malbec and 5% Petite Sirah, this is a dark, jammy and richly layered red, offering smoked meat, graphite and black olive. Lengthy, it is soft and supple on the palate.

90 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

Tobacco, spice box, lead pencil, and both red and black currant-like fruits emerge from the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Lion Tamer, a medium-bodied, supple, elegant 2019 that has sweet tannins, solid depth of fruit, and a great finish. Drink this total charmer over the coming 7-8 years, if not longer.

85 Cellar Tracker

Based on 24 notes and 23 scores from 18 users on Cellartracker.com as of 5/27/15.

93 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

Exotic citrus, honeyed lime, dried herbs, and bright minerality all emerge from Cordant's 2021 Chardonnay Bien Nacido, a medium-bodied, concentrated, layered Chardonnay with nicely integrated acidity, terrific balance, and outstanding length. It's another brilliant white from winemaker Scott Stelzle.

92 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

A juicy, pulpy and well-made red made of 25% grenache, 25% syrah, 25% carignan and 25% mourvedre. The nose shows notes of dark cherries, warm spices, smoke and dried herbs. Medium- to full-bodied with fine tannins. Structured and balanced, with a juicy core of dark cherries and a lift of spices bringing vitality toward the vivid finish. Drink or hold.

90 Matt Walls - Decanter

Fresh and brambly with some bay leaf notes. Juicy, rounded, fruity with juicy tannins. The acidity is quite low, but it has a feeling of herbal freshness. Feels refreshingly low in alcohol. A quarter each of Carignan, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. Likely to offer good value.

88 Wine Spectator

This lithe red's plum, almond and earth flavors are marshaled by bracing acidity. More meat on the bones would offset the acidity, but this should work well with salumi and cheeses. Barbera and Nebbiolo. Drink now through 2028. 12,500 cases made, 2,352 cases imported.

96 Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

"The 2021 Laurel, the second wine from Clos Erasmus was produced with grapes from younger vines, between five and 40 years old, and is a blend of 80% Garnacha, 11% Syrah and 9% Cabernet Sauvignon. The grapes were cooled down for 24 hours before sorting and destemming and then put in the vat where they warmed up and started fermenting naturally. They did a soft vinification with short pumping overs to avoid extraction, and the fermentation lasted two to three weeks followed by four weeks of maceration. The wine matured in oak vat, barrel and amphorae for 18 months. It's super aromatic, floral and expressive, clean and elegant, delicate and ethereal. It has a velvety palate that is nicely textured, seamless, elegant and balanced and with a focused, clean, long finish. I see the meaty side of Syrah here. It has 14.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.3. The oak is completely integrated despite the fact that the wine is very young. 28,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2023."

94 Joe Czerwinski - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

A Bordeaux-inspired blend, the 2019 Yettalil Red Wine is considerably darker, deeper and richer than the Napa Valley Cabernet. Scents of cassis, pencil shavings, loam and mocha all appear on the nose, while the full-bodied palate is expansive and velvety without getting jammy or overly broad. Perhaps most important, for a wine that will presumably be consumed along savory dishes, it's nicely savory itself, with earthy notes and gentle tannins punctuating the long finish.

88 Wine Spectator

A fresh sipper, with a subtle overtone of floral and herb accents to the flavors of blood orange, cantaloupe and blanched almond. Drink now. 10,000 cases made, 3,150 cases imported.