critic reviews
Deep garnet-purple colored. Rolls out with expressive notes of black cherries and black raspberries, opening out to hints of charcoal, dried sage, and black pepper. The medium-bodied palate is silky and fresh with a good intensity of black and red berry flavors and a peppery lift on the finish.
The 2024 Le Carillon Angélus is aged in around 50% new oak. The remainder remained in stainless steel with some of the Cabernet Franc in old wooden vats that belong to Angélus. It has a perfumed, finely delineated and focused bouquet with violet-tinged black and blueberry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins. Tensile with touches of orange rind and Asian spices, there is decent concentration on the mineral-driven finish. Give this two or three years in bottle and it should give at least a decade's worth of drinking pleasure.
Love the bright fruit, just a slight kiss of cedar and sandalwood oak, even a touch of incense. Not huge depths compared to some vintages but they really have leaned in and delivered a vivid, sappy and mouth watering wine, with confident tannins. 45hl/h yield. 40th anniversary vintage of Hubert de Böuard.
The 2024 Le Carillon d'Angelus offers up notes of dark berries, minty cherries and toasty oak, followed by a medium-bodied, softer and rounder palate that's more charming than the No. 3.