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The team has named 2024 “the rebel” – a vintage that had to overcome its fair share of adversity. Despite this, the final result in barrel is high quality. The elegant nose unfurls in the glass to offer notes of vanilla and spice. The estate was particularly pleased with the quality of the Merlot in 2024, which comes to the fore on the palate, making up 60% of the final blend. The tannins have a cashmere touch that leads to impressive length on the finish. The 2024 vintage was Hubert de Boüard de Laforest’s 40th at the estate, and to mark this milestone each bottle will bear a commemorative label. Blend: 60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Franc
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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A blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, cropped at a very honorable 40 hectoliters per hectare, the 2024 Angélus has turned out well, offering up aromas of dark berries, minty plums and violet, framed by a deft touch of toasty oak. Medium-bodied, ample and suave, it's polished and textural, with sweet but present tannins and creditable persistence on the finish.
Vivid plum colour, cedar and gunsmoke on the opening, skilfully and carefully put together, slim through the palate, but this is very clearly finessed, sleek, with quiet confidence, and pumice stone texture, cherry pit, squid ink, damson, rosebud, Cabernet Franc dominant in terms of its floral aromatics. 39hl/h yield, 40th anniversary vintage of Hubert de Böuard. This will for sure be ready to drink earlier than many vintages of Angélus, but it is well structured and will age for many years to come. No chaptilisation.
The 2024 Angelus is very fine. It is the first vintage I have tasted that captures the newer approach at Angelus, one where the wines are not as extracted as in the past. Black cherry, plum, spice, new leather and menthol fill out the layers effortlessly. Here, too, the wine shows superb balance and real textural presence. The blend is 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, with the Merlot being raised in 80% new oak and 20% once-filled barrels, and the Cabernet Franc in equal parts foudres and new smaller French oak barrels. The 2024 is mid-weight, classy and polished.
About the producer
Ch. Angélus is one of Saint-Emilion's finest properties. Ch. Angélus is one of the few Saint-Emilion properties today that has remained under family ownership since its inception over 237 years ago.