Tasting Notes
Colour: Luminous dark ruby garnet with violet reflections
Aroma: Black berry fruit underlaid with fine precious wood spice, ripe cherries, smoky herbal spice, tobacco nuances.
Palate: This new vintage has distinctive freshness, elegance, fruit and refined tannins. Juicy, spicy and complex, fine acidity, chocolate finish, good aging potential.
Grape Varieties: 50% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
Awards: 93pts – Jame Sucking; 90 Wine Advocate-Parker
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.