Eve with Château l'Angelus 1975

First of all, let me wish you a happy new year with all the best and the most amazing stuff than can happen to you and your people. I hope you had a great time during those Eve’s. It’s important to share but sometimes you know … it’s really good to be selfish heck yeah haha. You guessed it, your Mister Snob is still the same in 2014!

This year must start as a Bang! This is why, I decided to talk with you about one of my favorite wine: Chateau L’Angelus, St Emilion. Perhaps as my cellar contains some treasures, I decided to take an old vintage to ring the bell louder: The 1975

I’m really more confident with older vintages from the nineties and with this bottle, I was definitely not as impressed as I was waiting for. The wine is really too old: brow in color with an old, decaying leafy vegetal aroma and hardly ripe fruity intensity.
The wine was not corked but compared to the excellent 2005 made by the brilliant Hubert de Bouard it was poor definitely! Normally after some food and a few glass of L’Angelus, plus a good long look out the windows at the vines that run off into the slanting sunlight, then talk of God, angels and their whereabouts is not unknown…

Therefore what to learn from opening a Grand Cru Classé that doesn’t fit the expectations? Several things! Tasting a wine is really a humble moment. When you detect that something go wrong in your glass … please don’t start bullshitting. There were women and men who suffered the hell out to give you an overview of the year.

A wine glass is a time snapshot and it gets you sometimes far away from you are. A bad journey thus doesn’t sound like a bad experience. The 1975 L’Angelus was a great wine I’m sure of it. Even if I don’t really appreciate this St Emilion I know bad palates like you would enjoy it.

Once again, Happy New Year !!!