Carillon d'Angélus - Saint-Emilion 2023

Jeb DUNNUCK

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byJeb Dunnuckthe5/13/2024

The second wine from Angélus, the 2023 Le Carillon D'Angélus is 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc raised in 60% new oak, with the balance in stainless steel. Beautiful black raspberries, cassis, graphite, and spicy, floral notes give way to a medium-bodied, nicely balanced, concentrated 2023 offering fine tannins and the juicy, vibrant, elegant style of the vintage.

The Drink Business

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byColin Haythe5/7/2024

Carillon D’Angélus (Saint Émilion; 90% Merlot; 10% Cabernet Franc; ; tasted at Angélus with Benjamin Laforêt, Hubert de Boüard and Stephanie de Boüard-Rivoal). White and rose peppercorns, gently crushed, a little nutmeg and cinnamon, wild herbs, red, white and black currant with some of their leafiness, red cherries and a little Griotte cherry too. The limestone tannins frame and sculpt the wine giving this a lovely structure that imparts great depth and concentration. Vivid and intense. The Cabernet really dances in the space given to it by the frame set by the interaction between the Merlot and the tannins. Menthol on the finish. Impressively pure and with no sensation of oak. So succulent and juicy, sapid and fresh. A red wine made like a white and with all of the natural energy and tension that one finds in the best whites of the vintage. 

The Wine Cellar Insider

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byJeff Levethe5/6/2024

Flowers, licorice, cherries, plums, black raspberries, vanilla, and a hint of spice open the perfume. On the palate, the wine is polished, soft, and displays red pit fruits, chalk, and spice that you taste, and feel on the palate, and in the finish, with a touch of refreshing mint on the backend. The wine blends 90% Merlot, with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts.

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

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byJane Ansonthe5/6/2024

Bright violet and plum colour, vibrating with life, an easy wine to recommend as it no doubt will be to drink, love the depth and the rich damson fruit expression that combines with black chocolate, liqourice and cocoa with a juicy finish.

Vinous

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byAntonio Gallonithe4/30/2024

The 2023 Carillon d’Angélus is juicy, supple and quite inviting. Soft contours wrap around a core of plum, red cherry, cedar, new leather, licorice and pipe tobacco. The blend is 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. Bright, saline notes from the Franc add freshness to complement the forward Merlot fruit.

Vinous

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byNeal Martinthe4/29/2024

The 2023 Le Carillon d'Angélus matured in around 50% new oak. This is quite taut and linear on the nose—a more streamlined Carillon perhaps, with touches of crushed stone infusing the red berry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with a hint of blood orange on the entry, vivacious red berry fruit and a generous white pepper note toward the finish. There’s something almost Burgundian about this Carillon in terms of the tannin structure. Give it three or four years in bottle.

Alexandre Ma

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byAlexandre Mathe4/28/2024

Wine Advocate

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byWilliam Kelleythe4/26/2024

The 2023 Le Carillon d'Angélus, as usual a blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, exhibits attractive aromas of cherries, raspberries and blackberries mingled with hints of exotic spices, vine smoke and violets. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and polished, it's layered and enveloping, with a charming, seamless profile and a long, mouthwatering finish. As readers will by now 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 Angélus itself—with anything that doesn't make the cut relegated to the No. 3 d'Angélus.

Jamessuckling.com

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byJames Sucklingthe4/25/2024

There’s depth and beauty to this wine. It offers crunchy fruit, a chalky undertone and a hint of raw coffee bean. Medium body. Fine tannins. Bright and transparent. 90% merlot and 10% cabernet franc.

Vertdevin

93-94

byJonathan Chicheportichethe4/24/2024