| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | France > Bordeaux > Right Bank > Pomerol |
| Colour | Red |
| Type | Still |
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A pure, truffle and black raspberry-scented nose with oak in the background defines the classic style of l'Evangile. Nearly outstanding, this sexy, ripe, medium-bodied wine offers gorgeous levels of fruit, not a great deal of density, length, or tannin, but plenty of near-term appeal. Many consumers will score this offering higher on the pleasure meter than the above rating might suggest as it is very seductive. Anticipated maturity: now-2012.
An outstanding success for the vintage, the 1997 l'Evangile, for my taste, is better than the 1996. The 1997 verges on being over-ripe, but manages to pull it off without any flabbiness or shapelessness. It boats a dense black/purple color, as well as sweet, exceptionally ripe aromas of blackberry liqueur, plummy jam, and a touch of prunes and truffles. Sweet, unctuously-textured, and fat, with exceedingly low acidity, this chewy, fleshy, powerful, well-endowed wine should prove to be a hedonistic head-turner when bottled.
It will be delicious young, and should age for 10-15 years. This is an exciting, dinstinctive claret.
