Chateau Angélus - St. Emilion 2015 (6000ml)

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Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast

This wine is structured, powerful and ripe but also elegant and stylish. Juicy black fruits combine with a dry, structured core to give the wine both its richness and its future. Powered by its fruit and tannins, it has good aging potential. Drink from 2027.

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Neal Martin - Vinous

The 2015 Angélus has a calm, cool and collected bouquet of tightly wound black fruit that unfurls with aeration to reveal blackberry, gravel and pencil box notes; classic, almost Left Bank in style, and delivered with real panache. The palate is exquisitely balanced with fine but grippy tannin, layers of black and red fruit tinged with vanilla and perfect acidity. The harmonious, sensual finish is very alluring. What a stunning 2015 this is going to be! Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.

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Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW - Wine Advocate

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2015 Angélus is a little closed to begin, soon blossoming into a wonderfully fragrant perfume of raspberry preserves, ripe black plums and chocolate-covered cherries with suggestions of Darjeeling tea, candied violets, spice cake and cinnamon stick with a touch of aniseed. Full-bodied, the palate is fabulously opulent, delivering mouth-coating black and red fruit layers with loads of floral sparkles and a seductively velvety texture, finishing with great length and tension.

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Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW - Wine Advocate

A blend of 62% Merlot and 38% Cabernet Franc, the 2015 Angelus reveals a deep garnet-purple color and fragrant aromas of crushed red currants, warm plums and pencil shavings with hints of incense, sage, violets and tobacco. Full-bodied, very fine and intense yet exquisitely delicate with wonderful freshness, it has ripe yet firm, very finely grained tannins and an epically long, perfumed finish. With bags of perfume and a captivating plushness, this Angelus is a real head-turner!

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Wine Spectator

Dense, dark and muscular, featuring waves of warmed fig, plum and black currant paste that roll in with warm ganache, baker's chocolate and espresso accents. A huge swath of smoldering tobacco is brewing on the finish, which has a brooding feel, thanks to tannins that hit like a thunderclap at the end. If you've got time to wait... Best from 2028 through 2045. 8,750 cases made.

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Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

How about that investigation into Chateau Angelus big boss Hubert de Boüard for “taking illegal interest” in the rankings of Grand Cru Classé in Saint Emilion? Allegedly, the outcomes made by Boüard, and a journalist linked to the scandal, were intending to result in the elevation of ranking for Angelus. Well, there you go. Anyways, cabernet franc is perhaps the great character in this wine. I’ve always had a soft spot for Angelus, this wine firmed my resolve to rekindle with the producer. Racehorse muscular and athletic with impossibly long and fine tannin profile coupled to incredible sense of succulence. Dark cherry, cassis, lavender notes, earth and brambles, faint anise. The palate races away, shows great inward concentration but impossibly wonderful texture and persistence. Epic wine here.

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Antonio Galloni MW - Vinous

Readers will have to be very patient with the 2015 Angélus. Massively tannic and forbidding, Angélus is one of the most reticent, unyielding 2015s I tasted. The high percentage of Cabernet Franc, the approach to extraction, aging in the cellar - which involves minimal racking and low S02 - and slightly late bottling are some of the factors that result in a huge, powerful, impenetrable wine at this stage. Even so, the 2015 exudes concentration and depth. Time in the glass brings out some of the wine's unctuousness, but it will be at least a decade before the 2015 is ready to deliver true drinking pleasure.

Jancis Robinson MW

Tasted blind. Very dark crimson – glowing. Very seductive. Sweet and gorgeous. Massive, juicy, inky and fresh. Added later: better than most recent vintages of this wine. Score: 18/20