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2019 Château L'Evangile

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June 29, 2025 - $145

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RATINGS

96Wine Spectator

Rich, with an exotic tilt to the loganberry, mulberry and fig preserve flavors. Really packed, delivering anise, black tea, singed mesquite, sweet tobacco and ganache accents that all play a part, while a racy cast iron spine holds it all together.

96James Suckling

Fruit-tea, blackberry, tile and ripe-fruit aromas follow through to a full body with density and richness. Chocolate and walnut. Dense and seamless with super fruit and length. Lots of fruit. Very polished. Stylized. All the cabernet franc on the estate is in the wine.

96-98Jeb Dunnuck

Full-bodied, with beautiful tannins, a great mid-palate, and certainly no shortage of length on the finish...

94The Wine Advocate

...aromas of cherries, sweet berries, warm spices, violets and loamy soil... Full-bodied, rich and velvety, it's a broad, textural wine with a richly layered core of fruit, succulent acids and ripe, supple tannins that reflects the warm, dry vintage.

94Wine Enthusiast

...great ripeness with elegant black fruits and succulence, rich and dense. It has beautiful black, spicy fruits.

91Vinous / IWC

...well-defined bouquet with blackberry, wild strawberry and truffle...palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, fleshy and pure. A sweet core of fruit with an almost candied and very flattering finish.

16.5Jancis Robinson

PRODUCER

Château L'Evangile

Château L’Evangile is in the commune of Pomerol on the right bank of the Gironde River. As a wine in the Pomerol appellation, it is not classified. L’Evangile dates to the mid-18th century, when a family from Libourne planted vineyards and called the estate Fazilleau. In the 19th century it was sold several times and renamed L’Evangile. In 1990 the estate, which now includes 40 acres, was acquired by Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite). Substantial renovation has occurred under the Barons de Rothschild. Vineyards are planted to 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet France. There is a second wine called Blason de L’Evangile.

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Pomerol

Pomerol is the smallest of Bordeaux’s red wine producing regions, with only about 2,000 acres of vineyards. Located on the east side of the Dordogne River, it is one of the so-called “right bank” appellations and therefore planted primarily to Merlot. Pomerol is unique in Bordeaux in that it is the only district never to have been rated in a classification system. Some historians think Pomerol’s location on the right bank made it unattractive to Bordeaux-based wine traders, who had plenty of wine from Medoc and Graves to export to England and northern Europe. Since ranking estates was essentially a marketing ploy to help brokers sell wine, ranking an area where they did little business held no interest for them. Pomerol didn’t get much attention from the international wine community until the 1960s, when Jean-Pierre Moueix, an entrepreneurial wine merchant, started buying some of Pomerol’s best estates and exporting the wines. Today the influential Moueix family owns Pomerol’s most famous estate, Château Pétrus, along with numerous other Pomerol estates. Pomerol wines, primarily Merlot blended with small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, are considered softer and less tannic than left bank Bordeaux.

VINTAGE

2019 Château L'Evangile