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The 2005 Angelus is as good as it gets, and despite having 2-3 decades of prime drinking ahead of it, is as profound a drinking experience as money can buy even today. Offering off the hook notes of blackcurrants, smoked herbs, blackberries, toasted spice, espresso and scorched earth, this beauty is unctuous and opulent on the palate, with incredible depth, yet never seems heavy, cumbersome or over the top. It has more depth and concentration than the 1990 (and I suspect any vintage in the 1990s or 2000s) and will keep for another 30 years or more.
Drinking Window: 2017 - 2047
Reviewer Name: Jeb Dunnuck
Review Date: 12th December 2017
Truly great stuff, this wine performed at a three-digit level both in the horizontal tasting of 2005s in Baltimore, as well as in Montreal at this mini-vertical. This sensational, opaque, bluish/purple wine offers up notes of vanillin, spring flowers, blueberry and blackberry liqueur, plus a touch of licorice. The wine hits the palate with a thunderous cascade of ripe, rich, concentrated fruit. It is full-bodied, multidimensional and layered. The tannins are beautifully integrated but still present, and the wood, acidity, alcohol, etc., are all beautifully assimilated in this magnificent, majestic vintage of Angelus. It can be drunk now, but it is still an adolescent and that suggests it has at least another 25-35 years of longevity.
Drinking Window: 2015 - 2050
Reviewer Name: Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Review Date: 28th August 2015
The 2005 Angélus is a gorgeous wine. Inky red fruit, mocha, espresso, dried flowers and iron give this potent, explosive Saint-Émilion tons of richness. The style is dense and heavily extracted - as was the norm at the time - and yet the 2005 is impeccably balanced. This is a magnificent showing from Hubert de Boüard, who has done so much to elevate the status of this once under-achieving property.
Drinking Window: 2022 - 2035
Reviewer Name: Antonio Galloni
Review Date: 1st April 2021
Beautifully focused notes of figs and ripe fruit on the nose, this is very perfumed. A lot of material in this wine, the center palate is incredible, lasting for minutes. This is full-bodied and super silky with fine tannins. A pinpointed ball of fruit, think lychee, and hints of chocolate on the finish. Leave this for six to eight years, should be about right in 2018.
Drinking Window: 2018 - 2030
Review Date: 1st May 2012
Black purple in color, with coffee, blackberry and currant on the nose. Full-bodied, with supervelvety tannins and a long aftertaste of toasty oak and ripe fruit. Very close to the 2000. Superb. Best after 2018. 7,000 cases made. -JS
Drinking Window: 2018 - 2030
Review Date: 31st March 2008
(14.45% alcohol; 62% merlot and 38% cabernet franc; not yet racked) Deep ruby. Saturated bright ruby. Wonderfully pure aromas of dark berries, licorice, violet and tobacco leaf. Uncharacteristically generous on the attack for an infant Angelus, then silky, lush and sweet in the middle, with lovely floral lift to the superconcentrated dark berry and bitter chocolate flavors. The very fine tannins arrive late, allowing the fruit, floral and mineral components to expand. Elevage should bring even more length. Wonderfully detailed and refined for a young Angelus. This really refreshes the mouth. This should be approachable within a few years after its releases but will evolve in bottle for two decades or more.
Reviewer Name: Stephen Tanzer
Review Date: 8th December 2014
