L'Evangile - Pomerol (Futures Estimated Arrival Fall 2025) 2022 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $325.00
| Producer | L'Evangile |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pomerol |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 1005921 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 96-97 Points
Fresh wonderfully refined and gorgeously polished and long with very fine tannins. Medium to full body. Crunchy fruit and chocolate hazelnut and spice. Exciting to see how this tensioned beauty will evolve. Wonderful clarity.
Vinous: 95-97 Points
The 2022 L'Évangile is seriously impressive right out of the gate dark rich and enveloping. Dark-fleshed fruit mocha spice leather and a kiss of new oak race across the palate. Texturally the 2022 is gorgeous. One of the recent changes here (since the 2021 vintage) has been a reduction of wine that undergoes malolactic in barrel from 100% down to 60-70%. More than anything the 2022 impresses with its gorgeous inner sweetness and exceptional balance. In short the 2022 is a classic Évangile.
Jeb Dunnuck: 95-97 Points
The Grand Vin checks in as 82% Merlot 17.5% Cabernet Franc and a splash of Cabernet Sauvignon brought up in 50% new oak 15% in amphora 10% in foudre and the rest in used barrels. It has another level of purity and class with ripe red and black cherries leafy herbs truffle and spice-driven aromatics. These carry to a medium to full-bodied Pomerol offering beautiful tannins a silky elegant mouthfeel and a great finish. Hitting 14.2% alcohol with a pH of 3.84 and an IPT of 75 this classy balanced Pomerol shines for its purity and finesse and it should blossom with just short-term cellaring.
vWine Advocate: 95-97 Points
Given the young average age of this estate's vineyards its well-draining soils and the extreme vintage I was a little apprehensive; but the technical team evidently took the conditions in their stride harvesting the east-facing side of the vines (which sees the hottest afternoon sun) four days earlier. The resulting 2022 L'Evangile is beautiful offering up aromas of raspberries vine smoke black truffles violets and gravely soil. Medium to full-bodied supple and velvety it's seamless and polished with a bright core of fruit and powdery tannins that temper 2022's inherent sweetness of fruit to sophisticated effect. At this early stage it appears that the estate's progress with regards to élevage continues too as Evangile's creamy oak signature is much released allowing the fruit?and this superb terroir?to take center stage. It's a blend of 82% Merlot 17.5% Cabernet Franc and 0.5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
