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2020 Château l'Evangile, Pomerol, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot (88%), Cabernet Franc (12%)
Not ready
Product: 20208016685
2020 Château l'Evangile, Pomerol, Bordeaux

Description

Merlot 88%, Cabernet Franc 12%

Olivier Trégoat and Juliette Couderc renew their working relationship here in 2020, having previously collaborated at Lafite’s Long Dai winery in China. Their first task has been to prise apart the somewhat squat and solid historic style here and bring more elegance to the wine. That has started with precisely targeted analysis. Harvest involved collecting small parcels within existing plots. This is a powerful terroir: the bouquet is rich and intensely plush. The key is the finish, where charcoal, toffee, liquorice, jasmine and cumin become perceptible. This is a very fine step forward.

Drink 2028-2050

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Merlot (88%), Cabernet Franc (12%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château L'Evangile

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Pomerol

Pomerol

With 150 or so producers and roughly 740 hectares of vineyards, the smallest of Bordeaux's major appellations is home to myriad bijou domaines – many making little more than 1,000 cases per annum. If the topography and architecture of Pomerol are typical, the style of its wines is anything but. The best vineyards are planted on a seam of rich clay extending across the raised plateau of Pomerol from the boundary of St Emilion.
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