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Chateau Angelus Saint-Emilion (Premier Grand Cru Classe) 2022
Vendor code : 961
En Primeur 2022 campaign: the wine will arrive to the owners in 2025. Place your order online or with a personalized manager. We will fix the payment to receive the wine - it will arrive at your doorstep in two years. Thanks to the pre-purchase option (En Primeur), we have the chance to buy wines from Bordeaux at very attractive prices. Why buy in advance? Because it is favorable! You get the lowest possible price now and protect yourself against future currency fluctuations. It's reliable! The wine will be directly delivered to you from the château cellars, which guarantees 100% protection against counterfeiting. Get access to unique examples! Wines that are readily available today can quickly become rare, appearing on the market two years from now. The Angélus team, inspired by the transparency of the terroir of the 1950s wines, are bravely moving towards less intense winemaking. What does this mean in practice? Angélus today is a very different beast from the rich, oak-drenched wines of the 1990s and early 2000s. The 2022 wine turned out beautifully, and it only hints at what the future holds for this dynamic estate. As they say at Angélus, "We aim to bring more pixels to the image of the wine," which is borne out in the Chateau Angelus 2022.
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The 2022 Angélus turned out superbly and emphasises this estate's ongoing transition to a more elegant, integrated style that offers a purer expression of its terroir. The Chateau Angelus 2022 opens with aromas of dark berries, rose petals, and subtle hints of licorice, followed by a full-bodied, deep, precise, and penetrating style.
Chateau Angelus is located near the famous bell tower in St Emilion and has been owned by the Boüard de Laforest family for eight generations. In 1954, Chateau Angelus was classified as a premier cru and today is classified as a Premier Grand Cru Classe A (the highest quality category) and enjoys an excellent reputation that helped it survive the Bordeaux crisis of the 1970s and enter the new technological era of the 1980s. Chateau Angelus was the first premier cru in Bordeaux in the early 1980s to return to the old practices of pouring new wine into barrels soon after the maceration period. In the vineyard, Chateau Angelus was also among the first to start cultivating grapes from plot to plot, returning to the use of organic compost and environmentally friendly vineyard cultivation methods, pruning vines to limit yields, reducing leaf cover, and paying special attention to harvest dates. The cellar at Chateau Angelus was also innovative, beginning to use a sorting table, temperature control, and conveyor belts to place grapes into vats. The Chateau Angelus vineyards are located on a south-facing slope at the foot of the hill, which concentrates the summer heat and favors the early ripening of the grapes. The soils are characterized by good natural drainage, with a combination of limestone and clay providing the vines with the necessary moisture and minerals. The clay content ranges from 8 to 20%, making the soils warmer and favoring the early ripening of the grapes. The different varieties are planted to suit the different soil types on rootstocks ideally suited to this terroir. The Merlot grows on a slope with more clay, while the Cabernet Franc grows on less homogeneous sandy clay-lime soils at the base of the hill. All these characteristics contribute to the unique style of Chateau Angelus: a rich, dense, and full-bodied wine, thanks to the terroir conditions that favor the rapid ripening of the grapes, but elegant, pure, thanks to the high content of Cabernet Franc and the ideal composition of the clay-lime soils.
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This estate's shift in the direction of gentler extraction and more reductive, less overtly oaky élevage continues, and this extreme vintage only underlines that. Fermented at cool temperatures (20 to 23 degrees Celsius), and with an increasing proportion of the wine's Cabernet Franc component matured in large wooden foudres, the 2022 Angélus wafts from the glass with deep aromas of dark berries and cherries mingled with hints of iris, licorice and pencil lead. Full-bodied, deep and seamless, with a layered core of cool, vibrant fruit, powdery tannins and a long, saline finish, it's a brilliant young wine in the making. The 2022 is a blend of 53% Merlot, 46% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot.
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