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CHÂTEAU L'ÉVANGILE

2013 Pomerol Château L'Évangile

Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Pomerol & Lalande de Pomerol
Village Pomerol
ABV 13%

87% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc, 100% new wood. One might expect the 100% new wood to be very evident in a year like 2013, but in fact this wine has absorbed it with ease. Quite dark, but really quite rich. Impressive for its richness and depth of weighty fruit. All the same it has the freshness and vivacity of the vintage. Easy to hold in the mouth, it is supple and rounded, with puppyish charm, but the underlying power is there. Nevertheless to drink before the recent 'big' vintages. 2018-2028 Rating: 92+ L&S (Apr 2014)


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The 2013 l'Evangile shows a slightly deeper color as well as more noticeable ripe raspberry and black cherry fruit intermixed with notions of licorice and incense. Again, there is no hint of herbaceousness or tannic astringency in this mid-weight, slightly superficial, but charming, pretty 2013. Consume it over the next 7-8 years. This magnificent estate owned by the Rothschild family appears to be the number one challenger to the supremacy of Petrus, one of its neighbors. The owners have purchased 15 acres from La Croix de Gay, all on the high plateau of Pomerol. Consequently, l'Evangile now covers 55 acres and 37 different parcels. Obviously, 2013 was a challenge from the beginning, although the 2013 l-Evangile has turned out to be charming, fruity and easy-to-drink. The problem is the price of entry for a good rather than inspirational effort. 2014-2022 Rating: 88-89 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, www.RobertParker.com (Aug 2014)

(87% merlot and 13% cabernet franc): Dark ruby. Intense, pure blackcurrant, gunflint and violet aromas on the precise nose. Then very pure and suave in the mouth, with clean, well-delineated flavors of small dark berries and minerals showing noteworthy persistence. A major success for the year. Rating: 88-91 Ian d'Agata - Stephen Tanzer website (May 2014)

Firm tight red fruits the nose is a bit closed and the start of the palate fresh and quite light. There is depth in the middle richer black fruits layers of flavour the richness balanced by the fresher flavours that show at the back. The finish feels quite light and has a stylish elegant charm. 2020-35. Rating: 90-93 Derek Smedley MW, www.dereksmedleymw.co.uk (May 2014)

Château L'Évangile

Sandwiched between Château Petrus to the north and Château Cheval Blanc to the south are the vineyards of Château l’Evangile. In the latter part of the 19th Century l’Evangile’s wines were rated as second only to Petrus, reflecting the glory of its illustrious neighbours.

Château l’Evangile’s origins lay in an estate called Domaine de Mautretat that was broken up in the early years of the 18th Century with a Mme Conseillan taking one part (that went on to be next-door neighbours Château Conseillante) with a reverend gentleman called M. Léglise purchasing the other, to be called Château Fazilleau until renamed l’Evangile – the Gospel – in the late 19th Century, presumably in keeping with having St Peter (Petrus) next door.

Today Château l’Evangile is owned by Domaines Baron de Rothschild (Lafite), they having purchased the estate in 1990 from the Ducasse family one of whose forebears, Paul Chaperon, had built the château in 1874. DBR have injected a whole new level of investment and improvement to once again raise l’Evangile to the very top echelon of Pomerol. The 22ha of vineyard and planted for the most part on an usual gravel band that runs through the more usual clay soil. They are planted with 79% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. The wines are aged in barrel for between 12 and 24 months, although in more recent vintages they, like many producers in France, have also used larger oak foudres, amphorae and concrete vats alongside the traditional barriques bordelaises of 225 l.

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