Château Angélus - Angelus Grand Cru Classé 2011 (18L)
Price: $10669.00
| Producer | Château Angélus |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | St.-Emilion |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2011 |
| Sku | 6510000 |
| Size | 18L |
The weather patterns of this vintage were quite unusual and forced the estate’s teams to adapt continuously while never letting up with grass cover crop management tilling and early leaf removal and thinning out. These wines start with pure ripe fruit aromas. After a precise attack they display fine silky tight-knit tannins and a lovely mouth-filling feel. Very elegant finish."
James Suckling: 95 Points
"This is a racy elegant Angélus with super-silky caressing tannins and a fabulous depth of fruit including blackberries chocolate and light espresso. Such length and beauty. It needs at least four of five years of bottle age. Try in 2019."
vWine Advocate: 94 Points
"The 2011 Angelus is another winner from Hubert de Bouard. Supple and sexy with lots of blueberry and black raspberry fruit intermixed with licorice barbecue smoke and camphor this medium to full-bodied supple-textured sexy effort offers delicious drinking now and promises to become even better over the next decade. It should keep for 15 or more years."94
Wine Spectator: 92 Points
"The dark plum raspberry and red currant fruit has a very sleek feel lending a forward profile to the wine. Shows well-coiled grip underneath with dark tobacco and briar hints echoing through the finish and emerging more with aeration. Should expand with cellaring. Best from 2016 through 2028. 9585 cases made." ?JM
Vinous: 91 Points
"Bright ruby-purple color. Sweet oak-spiced aromas of dark berries mocha and cola with a floral note gaining strength with air. Supple and expansive on entry then rising tannins give the mid-palate a serious brooding quality but there's plenty of intense cassis and red cherry flavor to support the tannins. Closes flinty and long with a persistent chocolate quality. I really like the way this powerful wine remains graceful and refined; I hope Hubert de Bouard tries scaling back on the extraction a little because when he does wines like this one they are real beauts. A very good showing for 2011.' -Ian D'Agata
