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• I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine Likes this wine: 95 points

  August 30, 2022 - An Amazing Arizona Tasting: PnP - This wine is drinking quite well, albeit young, at 10 years old! The bottle is very cool with an etched label and gold leaf filling....to commemorate Angelus' classification as a Grand Cru/First Growth wine, along with 3 others in St Emillion (Pavie, Ausone, and Cheval Blanc).
  
  Nose is great! Shows sweet floral notes, dark fruit and some cedar, vanilla and earthy notes, wrapped in spice and forest floor. Palate is still fruit dominated with black and purple fruit at the forefront along with some cherry and red plum, this stunning wine also shows some tertiary notes of chocolate, mushroom, unagi and bramble notes with hints of graphite and earth. This will only get better! I think Angelus is a wine built for the long haul, and while very tasty now, will improve quite a bit with additional bottle age. For those who like hedonistic wines, it is in a good spot now, but there is definitely plenty of fruit and acid to age this wine a few more years to reap the rewards of added tertiary flavors. 95+ today for its hedonistic pleasure....should gain more points with additional aging.

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9 Comments

• WineBurrowingWombat commented:

  8/31/22, 11:32 AM - Amazing line up! I've been wanting to try the higher end stuff from other wine making countries, but was always too scared to pull the trigger since I wasn't familiar with their styles. Always worried how I might not appreciate it.
  
  Thanks for all the notes. I'm still trying to plan for a time to visit you some day, don't think I've forgotten about you, my guy!

• I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine commented:

  8/31/22, 12:06 PM - That's why it is good to have friends....so you can taste good wines before you buy! Then you have a love/hate relationship with them.....love them for letting you taste a wine, but not so much for making you feel like you need to buy some!

• WineBurrowingWombat commented:

  8/31/22, 12:10 PM - Ugh, so true LOL

• I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine commented:

  8/31/22, 12:11 PM - Let me know when you want to visit!

• WineBurrowingWombat commented:

  8/31/22, 12:18 PM - I'll text you later today

• Mark1npt commented:

  8/31/22, 8:38 PM - This is one of the best '12s out of Bdx!

• I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine commented:

  8/31/22, 11:16 PM - I personally didn't think 12 was such a bad vintage, especially the Right Bank....but the rep from Angelus said it was a tough vintage....this wine was drinking pretty darn good though....at least for my palate!

• Mark1npt commented:

  9/1/22, 4:56 AM - I didn't realize how bad or difficult it was, as I just stumbled across some good '12s and bought them up. LPB just did a 10 year check in on the vintage the other day and it was indeed a difficult one especially for the Left Bank.

• I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine commented:

  9/1/22, 7:20 AM - I knew LB was difficult, but always thought there were quite a few good deals on the RB

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