Tempo d'Angelus 2019 (750ML)

93 JS / 91 DE / 90 DB / 90 WCI

A delicious savory red with blackcurrant chocolate and cedar aromas and flavors. It’s medium-bodied with fine round tannins. Fresh and bright. It opens at the end and becomes chewy and intense. Give this two or three years to soften but it’s already focused. - James Suckling

Rustic nose, a hint of perfume, but focuses on vanilla, clove and liquorice. Lovely texture in the mouth with chewy tannins around deep, soft and smooth red fruits, cooling menthol and spiced wood notes at the back. Precise winemaking on show, all quite detailed and in balance. 40% new oak, the rest aged in steel tanks. 90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc. Drinking Window 2023 - 2035 - Georgina Hindle, Decanter

(Bordeaux; 90% Merlot; 10% Cabernet Franc; aged in oak barrels for 18 months; 15% alcohol; Diam enclosure). The first vintage of this wine and already impressive. Bright, aerial and attractive on the nose with plenty of calcaire lift and grace and an impressively pure and slightly herb-tinged red and darker berry fruit nose; a little suggestion of Angélus oak too in the cedar and spice notes that develop in the glass. Svelte on the entry and, again, a wine that speaks quite eloquently of its terroir – the fine-grained calcaire tannins biding the fruit to the linear spine. Pure, precise and very elegant. This, of course, lacks the density or depth of Carillon or Angélus, but it’s cut from the same cloth and has the same personality. - Drinks Business