2019 Château Angélus Hommage à Elisabeth Bouchet Magnum
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Body: powerful. Fuller than most red wines from Libournais; 14.5% alcohol.
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Log inStéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal and her nephew, Thierry Grenié-de Boüard, represent the eighth generation of the Boüard de Laforest family to manage Angélus. Following Catherine Sophie de Boüard de Laforest in 1800 and Eugénie Chatenet in 1900, Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal is the third woman to lead this estate, which she has overseen and grown. She is aware of the task entrusted to her in 2012 and the responsibilities it entails. She embodies the values that have guided her family throughout the estate's history: integrity, hard work, humility, and a sense of duty. Along with her nephew, she continues the work of their ancestors with the sole purpose of defending the grandeur of Angélus and ensuring that this name, synonymous with excellence and timelessness, endures.
The efforts of the dedicated owner, Hubert de Boüard, to produce the best wine in Bordeaux were rewarded in 2012 with the promotion of Château Angelus to the Super Class A. Only four Saint-Émilion wines are allowed to carry this highest classification: Cheval Blanc, Ausone, Pavie, and Angélus.
The good ratio of limestone and clay ensures excellent water and mineral balance. The grape varieties are divided according to soil type: Merlots on the slopes (more clay) and Cabernet Francs on the sandy-clay-limestone soils at the foot. The Angelus vineyard is situated in a natural amphitheater on the south-facing slope at the foot of Saint-Émilion, which causes summer temperatures to rise and accelerates grape ripening. The soil has natural drainage due to the slope.
Hommage à Elisabeth Bouchet is a small-production cuvée (5 barrels) released only in the finest vintages. The first release comes from the already almost legendary 2016 vintage. It is made from old Cabernet Franc (or Bouchet, as it was always called on the Right Bank) from two small parcels in the southwest corner of the Angélus vineyard. The wine honors Elisabeth Bouchet, great-grandmother of Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal, co-owner and CEO of Château Angélus—and is inspired by a rather beautiful history. It was in honor of his beloved Elisabeth Bouchet that the Angélus vineyard was so extensively planted with Bouchet (Cabernet Franc) by her husband, Stephanie's great-grandfather, Maurice de Boüard de Laforest. This is a superb wine in a beautiful numbered OWC/1 case.
Jeff Leve 100/100 : “ Produced from 100% old vine, Cabernet Franc, the aromas of smoked roses is what you initially notice before finding tobacco leaf, cherries, black raspberries, mint, menthol, and cigar box scents. The wine offers striking purity, similar to eating the berries off the vine. On the palate, the wine is supple, fresh, elegant, and refined, with silky textures, finesse, and depth. The red fruits continue expanding, taking on additional notes of herbs, tobacco, and cigar wrappers in the long, seamless finish. This is a benchmark wine for Cabernet Franc. Each bottle is packaged in its own, numbered box.
This is a magnum edition in OWC/1 - Even tastier, more festive and with a longer drinking window.
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RP 100
Reviewed by:
Lisa Perrotti-Brown
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Drink Date:
2024 - 2060
This is the first release of this new 100% Cabernet Franc wine from Chateau Angélus. Deep garnet in color, the 2016 Hommage à Elisabeth Bouchet hits the ground running with an intense, profound nose of blackberry preserves, boysenberries and redcurrant jelly, plus suggestions of beef drippings, black olives, damp soil and unsmoked cigars with wafts of pencil lead and truffles. The full-bodied palate bursts with vibrant, shimmery black and red fruits, inlaid with mineral accents and supported by firm, exquisitely ripe and finely grained tannins. Electric sparks of bright acidity course through the densely packed core, delivering incredible energy and freshness to the finish, leaving you wanting more. That this estate has managed to craft such a complete, jaw-dropping beauty entirely from Cabernet Franc is a triumph and, I hope, not the last of its kind. A masterpiece!
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2021 Angélus
(94-96)
Drinking Window
2031 - 2061
From: 2021 Bordeaux En Primeur: Back to Classicism (May 2022)
For the first time ever, Angélus is 60% Cabernet Franc and 40% Merlot in 2021. There's terrific density and power, especially within the context of the year. Black cherry, chocolate, spice, menthol and lavender all build nicely in the glass. The 2021 has quite a bit of richness, and its 14% alcohol, a bit lower than the recent norm, works quite well in this vintage. All it needs is a bit of time to help soften some of the raw contours that are present today.
- By Antonio Galloni on April 2022
"It was a year with no summer," de Boüard explained. "Mildew was a huge issue. We lost 40% of the crop. So far, it looks like the Cabernets are handling the conversion to biodynamics better than the Merlots. In the end, lower yields on the vine probably helped us ripen the crop. Harvest took place between September 14 and October 2." In the cellar, the team, led by Technical Director Benjamin Laforet, opted for a relatively long cold soak, with gentle extractions and some saignée. One of the recent developments at Angélus is the increasing use of cask for aging the Cabernet Francs, an approach that is working out quite well.
2020 Angélus
(96-98)
Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
From: 2020 Bordeaux En Primeur: Almost Back to Normal (Jun 2021)
The 2020 Angélus is shaping up to be tremendous. Bright and punchy, with terrific energy, the 2020 is more linear and focused than any recent vintages I can remember tasting. Crushed red berry fruit, iron, smoke, mint, chalk and dried herbs all build in the glass. In 2020, Angélus is less flashy than it can be. That is a very good thing, for those who can wait. Harvest took place between September 18 to 30. One of the major evolutions here in recent years has been the use of foudres to age the Cabernet Franc. Half of the Franc is now raised in large format oak, and that seems to bringing added freshness to the Grand Vin.
- By Antonio Galloni on May 2021
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Jeff Leve 100/100 : “Produced from 100% old vine, Cabernet Franc, the aromas of smoked roses is what you initially notice before finding tobacco leaf, cherries, black raspberries, mint, menthol, and cigar box scents.
The wine offers striking purity, similar to eating the berries off the vine. On the palate, the wine is supple, fresh, elegant, and refined, with silky textures, finesse, and depth. The red fruits continue expanding, taking on additional notes of herbs, tobacco, and cigar wrappers in the long, seamless finish. This is a benchmark wine for Cabernet Franc. 80% of the wine is aged in new French oak barrels, with the remaining 20% aging in foudres. Only 5 barrels were produced. Each bottle is packaged in its own, numbered box.
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Michel de Boüard de Laforest, historian, chartist and rector of the Academy of Caen, researched the origins of his family. The earliest reference he found to his family tree was that of Georges Boüard, born in 1544, a Bourgeois and Jurat from the city of Bordeaux. At the end of the 18th century, in 1782, Jean de Boüard de Laforest, a bodyguard of the king, settled in Saint-Emilion. His daughter, Catherine Sophie de Boüard de Laforest, met Charles Souffrain de Lavergne in 1795 and settled on the Mazerat estate, which belonged to her husband. At the beginning of the 20th century, Maurice de Boüard de Laforest inherited the estate. He expanded it and the half kilo in 1920 with the name of a 3-hectare toe enclosure called Angélus. He left it to his sons in 1945. Jacques and Christian de Boüard de Laforest continue the work of their father and that of previous generations. The property was incorporated in 1954. They expanded it further until it exceeded 20 acres in 1985. At that time, Hubert de Boüard de Laforest, son of Jacques, took over the management of the estate and was joined in 1987 by his cousin Jean-Bernard Grenié, son-in-law of Christian and later his daughter, Stéphanie de Boüard- Rivul in 2012.
The vineyard of Château Angélus is located in a natural amphitheater overlooking the three Saint-Emilion churches. In the middle of this special place, the sounds were amplified and the angel bells in the morning, afternoon and evening. They travel the working day in the rhythm in the surrounding villages and the men and women who take a few minutes to stop working and pray. The great French Impressionist painter Jean-François Millet immortalized this moment of prayer in his magnificent work "The Angelus", now on display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Less than a kilometer from the famous bell tower of Saint-Emilion, situated at the acclaimed 'foot of the hill' facing south, Angélus has been the life's work of eight generations of the Boüard de Laforest family. In the probable classification of Saint-Emilion wines in 1954, Château Angélus was a Grand Cru Classé. Already at that time it benefited from a solid reputation, which gave rise to the Bordeaux wine crisis of 1973 and participated in the oenological renewal of the 1980s. In this context, Hubert de Boüard de Laforest, graduate oenologist at the University of Bordeaux, took advantage of past of this wonderful wine, while resolutely focusing on the future strategy and developing and pursuing an ambitious and innovative policy to achieve excellence in viticulture and making.
Deze bijzondere Angélus Hommage à Elisabeth Bouchet opent met geconcentreerde zwarte en rode besvruchten zoals braam en kers, aangevuld met aardse truffeltonen, fijn tabak, krijtachtige mineraliteit en rijpe, zijdezachte tannines met levendige zuurgraad. Daardoor vormt hij een perfecte tegenhanger voor rood vlees, lam, wild, stevige kazen en stoofschotels: de diepe fruitconcentratie en de elegante tannines snijden door vet en umami heen en de frisse zuurgraad verfrist het pallet tussen happen door. Bereidingen die extra goed werken zijn langzaam gegaarde of gestoofde rund- en wildgerechten, geroosterd of kruidig lam met rozemarijn en knoflook, een reductiesaus op basis van runderjus of rode wijn, en stevige gerijpte kazen of een paddenstoelenragout die de aardse tonen van de wijn versterken.
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