1996 Château Angélus

Community Tasting Notes (90) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  5/12/2024 - pavel_p Likes this wine:

  18 months since my last bottle. Slow ox'ed for about 1h at home then poured into decanter at restaurant. This is still showing good concentration of rich and round dark fruit but at the same time also plenty of leather and tobacco. Will stay at this level for many months but doubt it will improve. Classic Right Bank Bdx and consistent 93 points.

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  4/18/2024 - Tao wrote: 91 Points

  The aroma of rather, stingy, herbal fruits, a touch of leathery fruits, this is not what I was expecting! Exceptional fine in texture and to me, this lacks a bit of excitement!

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  11/19/2023 - G.M. wrote: 93 Points

  Good but subtle. If you were drinking this without thinking over casual conversation it would be lost. But if you sniff and ponder it reveals subtle and compelling complexity. Violets, cigar box, iron emerge from the cassis and cedar. Gritty, drying tannin. (93 Excellent wine)

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  6/17/2023 - mflesh wrote:

  What's better than one Angelus? Two!! BNO dinner. The 02 was less Bordeaux-y than the 96, so it was my favorite. The 96 was really rocking and although I didn't ask, this one probably either was decanted before the event or was just more in the wheelhouse. The 02 definitely was showing more blackberry and less truffle, smoke and leather. Both of these wines are medium++ bodied wines, finishing with a moderate black pepper note on the 02 and a tamer, calmer smoked cedar and alder wood, ashy finish with a milder black pepper note. Really good wines with the porcini pork!!

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  9/11/2022 - pavel_p Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Perfect bottle with an in neck / bottom neck fill, only bottom 3-4mm of cork soaked, clean top. Pnp. Fairly dark garnet in the glass, thin translucent rim, no browning. Elegant nose with fairly deep dark fruit. Round dark fruit on the palate, the Merlot is showing, leather. With more air the tannins become more prominent. With even more air this resolves nicely though. Good length.
  A very nice Angelus in what was a rather challenging vintage on the Right Bank. Doubt this will improve but should hold for another 10 years given the structure is there.

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