Chateau Angelus - St. Emilion 2010 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $620.00
| Producer | Chateau Angelus |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | St. Emilion |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2010 |
| Sku | 119109 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 99 Points
The nose is impressively rich with an opulence and sexiness with earth berry spice and chocolate character. Black truffles! Full body with seamless tannins and beautiful richness. It goes on for minutes. The layers of fruit and ripe tannins are phenomenal. This is the greatest Angelus ever for me. Try in 2018.
Wine Advocate: 99+ Points
This is another magnificent wine. How much fun will it be to have the 2000 2005 2009 and 2010 in future tastings to see which vintage comes out on top? They are all candidates that will flirt with perfection depending on the state of their evolution. The 2010 has a similar color to the 2009 but is perhaps even more opaque which seems almost impossible. Subtle barbecue smoke graphite blackberry liqueur licorice and chocolate jump from the glass and the wine hits the palate with a thunderous cascade of sweet velvety full-bodied concentrated black fruits nice definition from the tannins and decent acidity. The wine has a majestic multilayered finish that goes on for a minute. This magnificent wine is still frightfully young and still somewhat unformed but every bit as prodigious as its older sibling the 2009. This will probably end up evolving on a slightly slower evolutionary track. However it has 50 years of longevity in it.
Wine Spectator: 97 Points
Got patience? You'll need it to wait this brute out fully. A chunk of tar sits between you and the core of black currant hoisin sauce and roasted Black Mission fig fruit flavors while the back end is a road-paving machine laying down a smoldering tarry track of tobacco and freshly ground coffee. And there's an iron note too as if this needed it. One of the most backward wines of the vintage. Best from 2017 through 2040.
Vinous: 95 Points
Good deep bright ruby-red. Extravagantly rich aromas of black raspberry blueberry bitter chocolate and coconutty oak. Like liquid silk in the mouth but with outstanding verve to the huge palate-saturating flavors of blueberry violet espresso and minerals. This is almost too much of a good thing today in a Napa cult wine way but the wine's molten slowly building tannins and outstanding finishing power promise a long and glorious evolution in bottle.
