Tasting Notes
Colour: Ruby-garnet
Aroma: Starts with pure ripe fruit aromas. Dark berry fruit underlaid with sweet notes of spice, delicate liquorice and dark forest berry jam, fine nougat touch.
Palate: Ripe cherries and chocolaty texture. After a precise attack they display fine, silky, tight-knit tannins and a lovely mouth-filling feel. Very elegant finish. Good development potential, needs a good five years before it should be drunk.
Grape Varieties: 60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Franc
Awards: 92pts – Wine Spectator
History of Chateau Angelus
Less than a kilometre from the famous Saint-Emilion bell tower, situated on the much-vaunted south-facing “foot of the hill”, Angélus has been the life work of eight generations of the Boüard de Laforest family.
In the first-ever classification of Saint-Emilion wines in 1954, Château Angélus was a Grand Cru Classé. Already at the time, it benefited from a solid reputation, which helped it survive the Bordeaux wine crisis of 1973. This was the context in which Hubert de Boüard de Laforest, a graduate oenologist from Bordeaux University, took advantage of this marvellous wine’s illustrious past, while being resolutely turned towards the future and launched and continued to implement an ambitious, innovative policy in favour of achieving excellence in wine growing and making.
In the most recent revision of the appellation’s classification, in 2012, Angélus was awarded the highest possible rank of Premier Cru Class A, alongside Cheval Blanc, Ausone and Pavie.
