Angelus - St. Emilion 2022 (750ml) (futures Estimated Arrival Fall 2025) (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $589.00
| Producer | Angelus |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | St. Emilion |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 5951 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 98-99 Points
So many beautiful primary fruit aromas. Al dente. Peaches. Very floral. Aromatic. Full-bodied and extremely fine tannins with length and beauty that show incredible depth. Superb brightness and reality. Exciting. Cabernet franc freshness and dynamics come through now even though the blend is 60% merlot and 40% cabernet franc.
The Wine Independent: 98-100 Points
The 2022 Château Angélus is made up of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc with a pH of 3.65. Deep garnet-purple colored it prances out of the glass with flamboyant notes of red currant jelly wild blueberries cassis and candied violets followed by suggestions of jasmine tea star anise and crushed rocks. The full-bodied palate is impactful from first sip yet slowly expands in the mouth ultimately over-delivering on the nose's promise with layer upon layer of perfumed black and red fruits supported by super fine-grained silt-like tannins finishing long and achingly shimmery...The result? Pure magic.Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Jeb Dunnuck: 97-99 Points
Looking at the Grand Vin the 2022 Château Angélus is based on 53% Merlot 46% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot that will spend 22 months in new French oak with a portion of the Cabernet Franc aged in foudre. This estate doesn't put a foot wrong and this is clearly a profound Angélus with a deep purple almost blue hue extraordinary notes of cassis blueberry liqueur acacia flowers and scorched earth full-bodied richness building tannins and a dense concentrated mid-palate all of which is grounded by a vibrant sense of freshness and purity. While older vintages were more closed and backward on release this has a certain accessibility given its balance and purity and I suspect it will offer incredible pleasure right out of the gate. It will evolve for 40+ years as well.
Wine Advocate: 96-98 Points
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.
Jane Anson: 97 Points
Precision and freshness here with fennel aniseed marzipan cassis incense cigar black cherry mint leaf and ink with a slow build of subtle aromatics and a cooling uplift on the finish. An exceptional wine that will reward long ageing but captures the luscious exuberant quality of the vintage without ever stepping over the line. 100% new oak for the barrels with 20% of the production (Cabernet Franc only) to be aged in larger oak casks. Organic farming (with their own farm growing produce for their restaurants and for vineyard treatments). This vintage also shows one of the benefits of leaving the classification which has become official as of 2022 - the de Boüard family is able to expand the footprint for the main wine of Angélus this year with 3ha of Château Bellev
Vinous: 95-97 Points
The 2022 Angélus was cropped at 40hL/ha. It is aged partly in foudres (around half the Cabernet Franc to be exact) and the remainder in new barrels the Grand Vin with 14.45% alcohol and 3.65 pH. This takes a few minutes to unfold in the glass. Blackberry iris petals and crushed stone notes are focused and delineated. There's opulence locked into these aromatics but that is contained. The palate is medium-bodied with a mineral opening. Graphite and fresh tobacco thread through the layered black fruit perhaps spicier than recent vintages. A gentle grip on the finish has some wood tannins to resolve which should be addressed during its élevage. This will need several years in bottle probably a decade; then I envisage this Saint-Émilion soaring. - By Neal Martin on April 2023
