{"product_id":"chateau-angelus-hommage-a-elisabeth-bouchet-2016-750ml","title":"Chateau Angelus - 'Hommage a Elisabeth Bouchet' 2016 (750ml)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHommage à Elisabeth Bouchet is a tiny-production cuvée that will only be released in the greatest vintages.  The first release comes from the already almost mythical 2016 vintage.  It is made from old-vine Cabernet Franc (or Bouchet, as it has always been known on the right-bank) from two small parcels in the South-West corner of the Angélus vineyard on the famous pied de côte (the foot of the slope).  The vines themselves are of 60-80 years of age, drawing the intense minerality that characterises the wine from the clay-limestone and clay-scree-limestone terroirs on which they are planted through their profound root-systems.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine honours Elisabeth Bouchet, great-grandmother of Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal, co-owner and CEO of Chateau Angélus – and it is inspired by a rather beautiful history.  For it was to honour his beloved Elisabeth Bouchet that the vineyard of Angélus came to be so extensively planted with Bouchet (Cabernet Franc) by her husband, Stephanie’s great-grandfather, Maurice de Boüard de Laforest.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2016 was aged for 22 months in carefully selected and exceptionally fine-grained new oak from the Vosges forest so as not to mark the wine in any noticeable way.  There are just 9 barriques of the 2016 and there will be just 5 of the 2018.  Later vintages will be aged, at least in part, in larger volume foudres.  No 2017 will be produced due to frost damage.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are only 1200 bottles and a few larger format bottlings of the 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCritical Acclaim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e100 points Wine Advocate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first release of this new 100% Cabernet Franc wine from Chateau Angélus. Deep garnet in color, the 2016 Hommage à Elisabeth Bouchet hits the ground running with an intense, profound nose of blackberry preserves, boysenberries and redcurrant jelly, plus suggestions of beef drippings, black olives, damp soil and unsmoked cigars with wafts of pencil lead and truffles. The full-bodied palate bursts with vibrant, shimmery black and red fruits, inlaid with mineral accents and supported by firm, exquisitely ripe and finely grained tannins. Electric sparks of bright acidity course through the densely packed core, delivering incredible energy and freshness to the finish, leaving you wanting more. That this estate has managed to craft such a complete, jaw-dropping beauty entirely from Cabernet Franc is a triumph and, I hope, not the last of its kind. A masterpiece! (LPB, 09\/2021)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Logan, Chateau Angelus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48101491835104,"sku":"130783","price":2333.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0649\/9713\/0464\/files\/chateau-angelus-hommage-a-elisabeth-bouchet_1.jpg?v=1762381746","url":"https:\/\/www.mywineconnection.com\/products\/chateau-angelus-hommage-a-elisabeth-bouchet-2016-750ml","provider":"My Wine Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}