Evangile - Pomerol 2016

Jancis Robinson

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par Jancis Robinson le 05/02/2020

Yvesbeck.wine

97

par Yves Beck le 20/03/2019

Rouge grenat aux reflets violets. Bouquet complexe, dense, aux multiples facettes. Beaucoup de fraîcheur avec des notes mentholées et du graphite. Bien entendu le fruit se révèle également au travers d'effluves de mûres et de cassis. Mise en bouche crémeuse et friande. Au palais, le vin est marqué par deux éléments très indicateurs : la puissance et la finesse ! Ceux qui me lisent régulièrement, commencent à le savoir… c'est souvent le marqueur d'un grand vin. C'est bien évidemment le cas d'Evangile 2016 qui brille dans cette catégorie. Les tannins sont puissants, aux grains fins et suaves sur la fin. Ils sont en parfaite adéquation avec la structure acide qui, elle, confère de la race et de la fraîcheur. De surcroit, elle soutient brillamment l'intensité aromatique jusqu'en finale. Quel grand vin ! Finesse… et puissance ! 2024-2048 97/100

Jeb DUNNUCK

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par Jeb Dunnuck le 01/03/2019

The grand vin 2016 Château L'Evangile is more primordial than the second wine, sporting a deep purple color and a huge nose of blueberries, scrub brush, violets, graphite, and lead pencil shavings. Deep, massively textured, with building minerality, a brilliant mid-palate, I'd imagine this is a modern-day version of the 1982. A sexy, sexy, wine, it should drink well in 4-6 years but is capable of last for 2-3 decades.

Wine Spectator

96

par James Molesworth le 05/02/2019

Features a wide swath of espresso, loam and smoldering tobacco flavors out front, followed by a tighter beam of black currant and blackberry paste. Dense and fleshy in feel, with echoes of warm earth and bittersweet cocoa scoring the finish. This wine flaunts its muscle. Best from 2024 through 2040. 250 cases made.  –JM

Jamessuckling.com

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par James Suckling le 04/02/2019

So ethereal and great on the nose with glorious fresh flowers, such as violets, together with black olives. Dark berries, too. But the archetypal Pomerol nose. Full-bodied yet, at the same time, so refined and structured. Glorious tannin tension and focus. Vibrant finish. Shows energy and focus. Try after 2024.

Vinous

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par Neal Martin le 24/01/2019

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.

Vinous

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par Antonio Galloni le 21/01/2019

The 2016 L'Évangile is just as captivating from bottle as it was from barrel. Huge and explosive in the glass, the 2016 possesses stunning depth and textural resonance. At first a bit somber, the 2016 needs time in the glass to open up. Once that happens, a elements fall into place in an effortless, gracious wine. Floral overtones add brightess to the dark cherry, chocolate, leather and spice flavors, while silky tannins round things out in style. Jean-Pascal Vazart describes 2016 as a late year. Harvest started o September 26, about ten days later than normal. The 2016 spent 16 months in French oak, 85% new.

Wine Advocate

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par Lisa Perrotti-Brown le 30/11/2018

The 2016 L'Evangile is made from 92% Merlot and 8% Cabernet France. It has a deep garnet-purple color and opens with notions of plum preserves, Black Forest cake, red cherry compote and black raspberries with touches of menthol, chocolate box, licorice and tobacco leaf. Medium to full-bodied, the palate features fantastically ripe, velvety tannins and beautiful freshness, lifting the generous, brightly fruited mid-palate and giving bags of energy to the very long-lingering, minerally finish.

Decanter.com

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par Jane Anson le 25/10/2018