Community Tasting Notes 10

• sttorres28 Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 28, 2022 - Color: light crimson with light rim
  Nose/palate: Tamarind, dried fruits, tobacco, sweet and fully integrated tannins. And fleeting notes of soy?
  Structure: medium minus acidity and tannins. Fruit almost no longer present.
  Alcohol: 11.5%
  
  Pleasantly surprised that this still had something to give. Slow oxed for 24 hours to see how this would develop, but no amount of air was able to give this additional weight. But really not an issue. The notes mentioned above held on for about 6 hours after opening. I got as much as I could have hoped for in this bottle.

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• SkyCellar Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 29, 2019 - What wine was Robert Parker drinking? He rated this wine 75 in 1997. In 2019 it was simply spectacular. A clear 95 to start but it faded pretty quickly, so only a 94. A great wine. Well worth the 40 year wait.

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• Jeff Leve wrote: 85 points

  June 4, 2018 - Rustic, earthy, medium bodied and short, the wine lacks complexity and depth. Although there is a charm in the earthy red fruits, herbs, leaf and tobacco personality. This is not a wine for further aging. If you are sitting on any drink up.

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• broadband013 wrote: flawed

  July 15, 2017 - Imbuvable

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• johnh1001 wrote: 93 points

  June 12, 2015 - Drank in St Emilion. Perfect bottle. Fill high into the neck. Consumed over 5 hours. Rich aromas of dark fruit, coffee, graphite, earth, tobacco and cassis. More dark fruit and with more air more coffee notes came out. Fully mature. Round with a medium finish. This started to fall off toward the end but for the middle two hours this was something.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1978
• Type Red
• Producer Château Angélus
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru

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• In Cellars 64 (54%)
• Consumed 54 (46%)

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