2010 | Château d’Angludet | Margaux

Description

Red Wine: 2010 | Château d’Angludet | Margaux

2010 vintage this is rich and bold, with wonderful scents of blackberry, cassis, plum, tobacco, cedar and gravelly minerality. On the palate it is medium-bodied, rounded and svelte, with vibrant acidity and a long, lightly grippy finish.

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Producer: Château d’Angludet

Ratings: WA | 90WS | 91

Vintage: 2010

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red

Country/Region: France, Bordeaux

2010 vintage this is rich and bold, with wonderful scents of blackberry, cassis, plum, tobacco, cedar and gravelly minerality. On the palate it is medium-bodied, rounded and svelte, with vibrant acidity and a long, lightly grippy finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: A major sleeper of the vintage, as I thought from barrel several years ago, the 2010 is one of the best d’Angludets I have tasted. It should drink nicely for 15-20 years, but there is no reason to defer your gratification. It is a sexy, up-front, precociously styled d’Angludet with a deep purple color, loads of floral notes intermixed with licorice, blueberry, black raspberry and, of course, the classic creme de cassis. It is dense, ripe, soft, round and surprisingly accessible for a 2010. A beauty!

• Wine Spectator: This has a pure loganberry and damson plum core, with lilac, warm pebble and lightly singed anise notes flittering through the background. Offers well-integrated structure through the finish, with subtle minerality echoing.

Producer Information

Château d’Angludet is a wine estate in the Margaux appellation of Bordeaux’s northern Médoc wine region. Its wines are highly-regarded and often critically lauded despite being left outside the original 1855 classification. The vineyard sits on a triangular section of the Arsac plateau on Garonne gravel, around three kilometers (1.8 miles) from the Garonne river and the beginnings of the Gironde estuary which runs north before turning west to the Atlantic Oceana and the Bay of Biscay. Château d’Angludet’s neighbors in Margaux, part of the wider, so-called “left bank” of Bordeaux, include châteaux du Tertre and Monbrison. The d’Angludet estate boasts around 32 hectares (79 acres) of vines on the 81 hectare (200 acre) property, with plantings consisting of 46 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 41 percent Merlot and 13 percent Petit Verdot. Grapes are fermented in concrete vats, and wines are aged in barrel for around 12 months with one-third new oak, then lightly fined with egg whites before bottling. Records of an estate at Angludet (“Angle of High Land”) date back to 1150, and the vineyard is thought likely to have existed in the 17th Century. In 1791, the estate was split four ways among heirs on the death of the then-owner, its scattered nature explaining the lack of a subsequent ranking in 1855. The estate was reconsolidated in 1891, though by 1960 there were just seven hectares (17 acres) of vineyard. Since 1961, the property has been the home of the Sichel family, who have restored the château and the reputation of its wine.