Tasting Notes
Vinous 91
Bright ruby-purple color. Sweet oak-spiced aromas of dark berries, mocha and cola, with a floral note gaining strength with air. Supple and expansive on entry, then rising tannins give the mid-palate a serious brooding quality, but there’s plenty of intense cassis and red cherry flavor to support the tannins. Closes flinty and long, with a persistent chocolate quality. I really like the way this powerful wine remains graceful and refined; I hope Hubert de Bouard tries scaling back on the extraction a little, because when he does wines like this one, they are real beauts. A very good showing for 2011.
Robert Parker 74
The 2011 No. 3 d’Angelus (which is apparently the estate’s third wine) possesses a medium ruby color as well as an attractive nose of fresh herbs, earth and a cow pasture. Light in the mouth and somewhat disjointed, it is of little interest.