L'Evangile 2012 (750ML)

94 RP / 94 WS / 95 JS / 94-96 WA

This dark ruby/plum Pomerol offers up sweet black cherry and blackcurrant fruit, velvety tannin, medium to full body, and a nice lushness and silkiness. A beauty with great fragrance and suppleness, its not enormously endowed, as a great vintage would be, but it is certainly an outstanding wine and a brilliant effort from Evangile in 2012. Drink it over the next 15 years. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate

A dense, dark, woodsy style, with loads of tobacco, charcoal and tar holding sway over steeped plum, black currant and Black Mission fig flavors. Shows a serious graphite bolt on the finish, along with a tug of dark earth. A rather powerful rendition of Pomerol that will need some time to stretch out fully. Best from 2018 through 2032. James Molesworth

A wine with plenty of deep fruit, spices and hazelnut character. Lovely fruit. Full-bodied, with lovely silky tannins and a long, long finish. So much going on here. Elegance with strength and structure. 93% Merlot and 7% Cabernet Franc. James Suckling

A blend of 93% Merlot and 7% Cabernet Franc, almost identical to the previous vintage and delivering a relatively high 14.4% alcohol, it has a finely tuned, forest floor-scented bouquet with crisp red berry fruit Ò quite conservative but showing impressive delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with a tense, saline entry. This is a typical masculine LEvangile Ò broody and introspective at the moment. There are clearly sweet tannins at the core of this Pomerol legend but it will demand several years in bottle to come round. Tasted April 2013. Neal Martin