Chateau Angelus 2022

✦ The Landscape & Terroir
Bordeaux is a landscape of rivers, gravel, clay and restrained maritime light. The Gironde and its tributaries moderate the climate, while the soils shape the wine’s structure and longevity. In Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux, France, clay-limestone slopes gives the wine its frame, depth and sense of place.

✦ The Wine & Varieties
2022 Chateau Angelus is made from Merlot and Cabernet Franc. For Hong Kong collectors new to European fine wine, this is a way to understand place through structure: fruit gives pleasure, but terroir gives the wine its shape and memory.

✦ Winemaking Philosophy
The wine reflects estate-managed Right Bank viticulture. The cellar work is not about making the loudest wine, but about preserving proportion, texture and the identity of the vineyard. Ageing: French oak ageing.

✦ Taste Profile
Expect dark fruit, refined tannins, cedar spice and a long structured finish that opens slowly in the glass. It is a wine to serve with care, open with time and enjoy as it moves from fruit toward detail.

✦ Why It Matters
2022 Chateau Angelus matters because it carries velvet texture, depth and Right Bank generosity. It belongs in a cellar not only as a luxury bottle, but as a reference point for how origin, vintage and human judgement can meet in one glass.

✦ Key Facts
Grapes: Merlot and Cabernet Franc
Region: Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux, France
Soil: clay-limestone slopes
Farming method: estate-managed Right Bank viticulture
Ageing: French oak ageing
Serving temperature: 16–18°C
Ageing potential: 15–35 years