Château Angélus

Le Carillon de l'Angélus, St Emilion, 2022

Name: Le Carillon de l'Angélus, St Emilion
Brand: Château Angélus
Price: 552 GBP

94/100

Inside Bordeaux

91-93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

92/100

The Wine Independent

92/100

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2022
6x75cl
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£552.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Carillon d'Angelus 2022 was a bit of an eye opener for us. Stephanie de Bouard-Rivoal and her father, Hubert have raised the bar in Dick Fosbury fashion. The fruit hails from the Bouard family's share of Bellevue, a site to the west of the commune near Figeac and a limestone vineyard in Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes. Whatever they've done has worked. Opening with clear raspberry and fresh plums, there's a seamless delivery of fruit; pure, refined and intense - lots of detail and wonderful texture. There's a delicacy to the fruit too, highlighted by the well-judged tannins and the mouth-watering saline finish. 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

92/100

Chris Kissack,

The Wine Independent

These days Carillon d’Angélus is a distinct cuvée with its own cellars, and takes no ‘rejected’ fruit from the Angélus vineyards, so it is a deuxième vin no more. The blend is 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, from three dedicated parcels of vines in St Emilion which account for 25 hectares (up from just 4 hectares many years ago) of the appellation. The need for more space to accommodate this increased volume is what prompted the building of the new Carillon cellars on the main road towards Castillon. It is vinified in suspended inverted tronconic vats before élevage in 60% new oak and 40% stainless steel cuve (they don’t tend to use second-fill barrels at Angélus) for 14 months. A rather classy nose here, leather wrapped around desiccated blackberry and currant, with fresh nuances of wild flowers, mint and rosemary. A svelte and finely polished start to the palate, very elegant and precise, with finely integrated tannins, and fragrant dark berries, currant and juniper. A juicy presence, with a lovely grip underneath it, fresh acids too, giving it a long and lightly shimmering finish. Top stuff. The alcohol on the label is 14%.

drinking window 2027 - 2044

date of review 06/2025

94/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

This has spiced sage, fennel and rosemary spice running through the damson, cherry pit and tannic grip. 60% new oak, rest in stainless steel tank. Clay soils of St Emilion, harvest started September 8 to 29, 60% new oak.

drinking window 2027 - 2040

date of review 03/2025

92/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 Le Carillon d'Angélus was an impressive Deuxième Vin from barrel. Now in bottle, it has a clean, fresh and delineated bouquet with blackberry and graphite scents. The palate is medium-bodied and slightly granular in texture, with pliant tannins. It’s harmonious with a pretty, red cherry- and cranberry-tinged finish that exerts a light grip. This is quite delicious.

drinking window 2025 - 2042

date of review 02/2025

91-93/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Unfurling in the glass with notions of raspberries, red plums, sweet soil tones and truffle, the 2022 Le Carillon d'Angelus is medium to full-bodied, fleshy and vibrant, with powdery tannins and a long, saline finish. As readers will remember, this bottling is no longer a "second wine" per se, but rather draws on some 25 hectares of dedicated vineyards, emphasizing Merlot from the cool terroirs of Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes, complemented by holdings in the gravelly Figeac sector and on clay soils near Angelus itselfwith anything that doesn't make the cut relegated to the No. 3 d'Angelus.

date of review 04/2023

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