Château L'Evangile

Château L'Evangile, Pomerol, 2021

Name: Château L'Evangile, Pomerol
Brand: Château L'Evangile
Price: 677.16 GBP

94/100

Inside Bordeaux

94/100

The Wine Independent

94/100

Vinous

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Last Few
2021
3x75cl
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£677.16
2021
6x75cl
DP
£1,354.33
Last Few
2021
6x75cl
DP
£1,354.33

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

We tasted with Juliette Couderc, the new winemaker at Evangile, who arrived at the chateau in 2020 following a stint at Domaine de Long Dai (the Rothschild's estate in Shandong Province). She is full of enthusiasm, is clearly very gifted and has had an immediate impact on the wines. This is one of the most cohesive and impressive Evangiles we've tasted for a while. There's a real sense of control and harmony. Nothing is disjointed or out of place. Much more complex than the Blason, with a real florality to the bouquet. Ripe griotte and damsons mingle with hints of pot pourri and cedar. The palate is bright and pure with a sense of tension and verve. Texturally suave, the mid-palate possesses a fine concentration with suggestions of dark hedgerow fruits and blueberries, framed by well-judged tannins and a bright engaging vein of acidity. Bravo.

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Critic Reviews

94/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

A blend of 69% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon, L’Evangile 2021 used less new oak this year, only 50%, with 15% of the wine aging in amphora. It has a medium to deep garnet-purple color and needs a little swirling to bring out notes of black cherries, juicy plums, and raspberry preserves, giving way to nuances of lavender, aniseed, and damp soil, with a touch of iron ore. The medium-bodied palate has a good intensity of vibrant black fruits, with rounded tannins and bags of freshness, finishing earthy.

drinking window 2027 - 2042

date of review 04/2024

94/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Dark ruby colour, curling aromatics of gunsmoke and violet, a touch of rose petal with chalky tannins, this is full of savoury dark fruits with liqourice, cloves, smoked earth and black truffle, showing finesse and balance. Harvest September 21 to October 4. No chaptilisation. 50% new oak, 15% amphora, 3.6ph. Careful work over ageing with a reduced number of coopers (brought down to four from nine). This is their first organic-certified vintage, and first year with Juliette Couderc as technical director from beginning to end of the growing season.

drinking window 2028 - 2041

date of review 03/2024

94/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2021 L'Évangile, aged in just 40% new oak from four cooperages and 15% amphora, is the first vintage to be made under certified organic. On the nose, it offers mainly red fruit, well-defined with black truffle and cigar smoked emerging with time. As I wrote during primeur, it exudes Pomerol DNA on the nose. The palate is medium-bodied with a silky-smooth entry, quite complex with black pepper and clove percolating through the red fruit. This is not powerful, but there is a heap of personality and a sustained, truffle- and black pepper-tinged finish, a ferrous tincture lining the aftertaste. A superb wine in the context of a tricky growing season, it will be fascinating to watch evolve in bottle.

drinking window 2030 - 2070

date of review 02/2024

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Merlot Cabernet Franc

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14.5%

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