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Delivery 2027/2028

Appellation – Saint-milion

Owner – Stphanie de Board de Laforest

60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc

Second wine LeCarillon de l’Angelus

Annual production 140,000 bottles

TASTING NOTES

A blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, cropped at a very honorable 40 hectoliters per hectare, the 2024 Anglus has turned out well, offering up aromas of dark berries, minty plums and violet, framed by a deft touch of toasty oak. Medium-bodied, ample and suave, it’s polished and textural, with sweet but present tannins and creditable persistence on the finish.
90/93
William Kelley, Wine Advocate, April 2025

Vivid plum colour, cedar and gunsmoke on the opening, skilfully and carefully put together, slim through the palate, but this is very clearly finessed, sleek, with quiet confidence, and pumice stone texture, cherry pit, squid ink, damson, rosebud, Cabernet Franc dominant in terms of its floral aromatics. 39hl/h yield, 40th anniversary vintage of Hubert de Buard. This will for sure be ready to drink earlier than many vintages of Anglus, but it is well structured and will age for many years to come. No chaptilisation.
94
Jane Anson, JaneAnson.com, April 2025

The 2024 Angelus is very fine. It is the first vintage I have tasted that captures the newer approach at Angelus, one where the wines are not as extracted as in the past. Black cherry, plum, spice, new leather and menthol fill out the layers effortlessly. Here, too, the wine shows superb balance and real textural presence. The blend is 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, with the Merlot being raised in 80% new oak and 20% once-filled barrels, and the Cabernet Franc in equal parts foudres and new smaller French oak barrels. The 2024 is mid-weight, classy and polished. Drink 2030-2054.
93/95
Antonio Galloni, vinous.com, April 2025