Community Tasting Notes 303

• rhyman Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 22, 2024 - This was pleasantly surprising. Decanted for one hour. Wonderful dark purple color with a hint of the beginning of an orange rim.
  Fragrant black nose that lasted through the night.
  Dark black blackberry and raspberry. Good follow.

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• dream Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 1, 2024 - A very deep and rich wine showing fully mature now with dark raspberry and boysenberry fruits and a really opulent, velvety texture. There are delicious accents here of smoked dark chocolate, truffles and decadent spices and the finish shows just a bit of tannins left. Delicious but typical of this wine for me in that it shows some alcoholic heat and lacks terroir-specificity especially compared to the Figeac. Comanderie Edwardian dinner 2/29/24.

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• ricknat1 wrote: 90 points

  February 29, 2024 - I never have enjoyed this wine although most people did. I find it tannic and did not drink it
  Smthird best wine of a set of 4 right bank wines at Edwardian dinner

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• AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 25, 2024 - DC Dinners and Tastings; 2/24/2024-2/26/2024 (Washington, DC): Cheese rind, black licorice and fresh green herbs on the nose. Smells a bit funky, and not a lot of fruit. Medium + intensity of aromas, which is not a great thing for this. The palate, however, fares better. It shows flavors of tobacco, chestnuts, over ripe dark plums, over ripe blackberries and brown sugar. The finish is oak-driven, showing more wood and some caramel. Almost reminiscent of Cognac.
  
  Medium + body with medium + acid and medium + tannin. If ratings were only for structure; this wine would recieve 100 points. As far as flavors go, however, you can tell this is well into the second half of its life.

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• Dionysos55 Likes this wine: 97 points

  January 22, 2024 - Robe encore bien opaque malgré les 33 ans au compteur.Bouquet sensationnel de complexité:il offre des senteurs de fruits noirs (cassis,mûre) de fruits rouges (groseille),de café,moka,de feuilles de thé,d'épices douces bref c'est passionnant de constater cette évolution au fur et à mesure de l'aération alors qu'une décantation avant consommation de 1h30 a déjà eu lieu.La bouche confirme: c'est juteux,suave,de l'hédonisme pur et dur.Cet assemblage 50%Cabernet franc 50% merlot donne sa pleine mesure.Magnifique longueur.Bouteille sublime qui confirmait le renouveau du château après des années maigres.Intéressant aussi de comparer 89 à 90 deux grands millésimes à n'en point douter.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1990
• 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
• UPC Codes 000056444650, 071570012878, 091882438272, 3277035162059, 6717785009992

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• Pending Delivery 32 (1%)
• In Cellars 2,554 (59%)
• Consumed 1,723 (40%)

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