L`Evangile 300cl 2016
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L`Evangile 300cl 2016
HED65995
300 cl
12.5%
£1,380.00
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Château l’Évangile is one of the oldest properties in Pomerol with a history stretching back as far as 1741. Since 1999, when it was sold to the owners of Château Lafite-Rothschild, the consistency and quality of this estate has increased to another level and it is now producing some of the finest wines in its illustrious history.
2016 was an excellent vintage for Right Bank Bordeaux and this is a superb release composed of 92% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc. Wonderfully endowed with incredibly rich dark fruits and wonderful savoury depth, it is also incredibly impressive for its effortless balance of perfectly ripe tannins and energetic freshness. A classic modern-day l’Évangile that should age superbly.
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Vinous
The 2016 L’Evangile has a sumptuous, generous bouquet of copious wild strawberry and cranberry aromas laced with veins of blue fruit. The oak here is neatly integrated, and this l’Evangile is perhaps a little more open at this stage than other vintages I have tasted. The palate is silky-smooth on the entry, very harmonious and certainly fresh and tensile, displaying a fine bead of acidity. It perhaps does not quite deliver the riveting complexity of some of its peers toward the finish, where it needs more body and persistence, but otherwise this is a very finely crafted L’Evangile that should age well over the next 20 or 30 years. Neal Martin1st January 2019
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