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Château Angelus is one of the largest and most prestigious St-Emilion estates and was promoted to1er grand cru classé status in the 1996 St-Emilion reclassification. Since 2012 ranked Premier grand cru classé (A) in the Classification of Saint-Émilion wine. Passionately managed for over four generations, Angelus is owned and run by two cousins, Hubert de Boüard de Laforest, andJean-Bernard Grenie and is located in the centre-west of the St-Emi...

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Vintage 2020

In Bordeaux, the heat led to early flowering. Additionally, this led to an early harvest after a very hot summer. As a starting point, there is great maturity in the grapes, and we can expect a more opulent vintage than in recent years.

This year's summer was the hottest since 1959, but the rain fell at just the right time during the growing season. The harvest took place two weeks before the norm and will produce grapes with high alcohol p...

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Tasted in November 2021. Barrel sample. 60% Merlot + 40% C. Franc. 14.5% alcohol. The specially selected C. Franc plots were ageing in so-called “foudres” (big oak barrels) to preserve the subtlety of this grape variety. Freshness, intense black cherries, bright acidity. Spectacular elegance and sophisticated touch. This wine oozed with great precision, flowing midpalate and length! Breathtaking quality. 

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Château Angélus 2020 Barrel Sample (Saint-Émilion); 97—99 points. This wine brings together all the best elements of the vintage. It shows concentrated tannins laced with a velvety texture and a sustained intensity of black fruits. It shows a strong mineral element in the texture that gives complexity and a fine edge at the end. Obviously, it’s a wine for long-term aging.

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2020  Château Angélus St. Émilion Grand Cru Dark in color, the wine explodes with blackberry liqueur, plums, smoke, licorice, Asian spice, cherry blossoms, violets and truffles. The wine is full-bodied, rich, dense and intense, with layers of opulent, cashmere textured fruits. As good as that is, it's the mid-palate and finish, with its non-stop waves of silky, sensuous fruits that build, expands and intensifies, leaving you with a beautiful purity of fruit-infused with spicy chocolate. The endnotes linger for close to 60 seconds. Give this a decade or so of age and it should be a mind-blowing tasting experience. The wine blends 60% Merlot with 40% Cabernet Franc,14.5% ABV, 3.65 pH. The wine is aging in 100% new, French oak, however, 40% of the Cabernet Franc is aged in foudres, allowing the oak to almost finish integrating into the wine on release. Harvesting took place, September 12-September 30. 98-100  Pts

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I loved the 2020 Château Angélus, which has the fresh, pure, incredible style favored by the estate today yet still has beautiful concentration and depth. Lots of ripe black cherries, mulberries, and cassis as well as violets, white flowers, tobacco, and dark chocolate define the bouquet, and it's medium to full-bodied, with a seamless, incredibly elegant mouthfeel, flawless tannins, and a great finish. While I don't think it's going to match the magical 2018, it's not far off and is unquestionably a gorgeous wine. 
Barrel Sample: (95-97)+

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2020 Château Angelus
APR 21 60M 40CF Ruby. Blackberries, blueberries, floral, scented, violets, layered and detailed nose, quite scented. The three large 30HL fudre for Cabernet Franc introduced in 2018 really seems to make Cabernet Franc way more scented than earlier vintages of Angelus. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, dark fruits, anise, spices, intense, dark fruits, blackberries, detailed, liquorice layer to it, detailed and long. Ca PH 3,5 to 3,65 and 97-99

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Dark purple colour with violet hue and black core. Impressing nose with very complex and concentrated character,  aromatic purity and depth, ripe blackberries, cherries, hints of blackcurrants, liquorice and fragrant spiciness. On the palate well a wine with great precision and complex character, refined tannins, fine acidity and wonderful fruit. Aromatic depth, great freshness and excellent length coming together, creating the most elegant Angélus ever tasted en primeur.

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