1990 Château Angélus

Community Tasting Notes (303) Avg Score: 95.4 points

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  3/22/2024 - rhyman Likes this wine: 93 Points

  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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  3/1/2024 - dream Likes this wine: 93 Points

  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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  2/29/2024 - ricknat1 wrote: 90 Points

  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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  2/25/2024 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 92 Points

  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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  1/22/2024 - Dionysos55 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  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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