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Chateau Angelus2020

RED WINE

PUBLIC
April 2025
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Chateau Angelus label
  • Producer Chateau Angelus
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Saint-Emilion
  • UPC 0 15643 70650 9

Reviews

Jeb Dunnuck 98

The flagship from this great estate, the 2020 Chateau Angelus checks in as 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc that spent 22 months in new barrels. It's darker and more concentrated compared to the 2019, offering beautiful, medium to full-bodied aromas and flavors of redcurrants, black raspberries, sandalwood, spring flowers, and smoked tobacco. With just about flawless balance, it's not the blockbuster style of a decade ago, but it has gorgeous purity, ultra-fine tannins, a round, seamless mouthfeel, and a great, great finish.

by JD, Jeb Dunnuck , 2023

James Suckling 99

Blackberry and plum character with chocolate, too. Oyster shell. Full and very firm with a linear sensibility. Tight and powerful. Very pure fruit. Tension and energy there. Polished tannins. Some coffee bean and chocolate. Give this at least five or six years. 60% merlot and 40% cabernet franc.

by JS, James Suckling , 2023

Wine Enthusiast 98

This wine brings together all the best elements of the vintage. It shows concentrated tannins laced with a velvety texture and a sustained intensity of black fruits. It shows a strong mineral element in the texture that gives complexity and a fine edge at the end. Obviously, it's a wine for long-term aging.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2021

Wine Advocate 97

The 2020 Angelus has turned out superbly and underlines this estate's continuing shift to a more elegant, integrated style that offers a purer expression of its terroir. A blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, it unwinds in the glass with aromas of cherries, wild berries, rose petals, mint and subtle hints of licorice, followed by a medium to full-bodied, beautifully layered and vibrant palate that's deep, precise and penetrating, concluding with a mouthwateringly chalky finish. Some 120 hectoliters of Cabernet Franc, amounting to around 20% of the blend, were matured in foudre this year, which no doubt helps to account for the significantly reduced oak impact in the 2020.

by WK, Wine Advocate , 2023

Vinous Media 96

The 2020 Angelus has a more awkward nose than its peers, lacking the same focus and delineation. There is something Cabernet Sauvignon-like about this, though it coheres in the glass and conveys an appealing sense of classicism. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins. It's a touch more ferrous than its peers but is very well balanced with a cerebral and persistent finish. This will require several years in bottle, yet it will be worth the wait.

by NM, Vinous Media , 2024