Le Carillon d’Angélus 2019 – A beautifully refined second wine of Angélus, showing pure redcurrant and creamy red-fruit character wrapped in silky, chalk-textured tannins. Perfumed with violets, sweet tobacco and subtle spice, it delivers elegance, freshness and impressive finesse, with a long, mineral-tinged finish. A poised and expressive 2019 that will age gracefully.

James Suckling | JS 95
Published: Mar 3, 2022

Redcurrant, sweet-tobacco, bark and earth aromas follow through to a full body with a creamy texture of crushed stone and pure fruit at the end. it'stight and pure with beautiful finesse and mouth-feel. 90% merlot and 10% cabernet franc. Second wine of Angelus. Try after 2026.

Decanter | D 94
Published: Jan 5, 2022
Drink: 2025-2045

Lovely aromatic profile, delicate and softly perfumed with violets. A gorgeous rush of creamy red fruits on the palate - cranberry, redcurrant, red cherry and touches of blackcurrant leaf. The texture is smooth but dense yet flowing giving flavour and restraint. You can taste the creamy, chalkiness here with wet stone nuances really reflecting the terroir with a spicy kick and cooling mint finish. The taste goes on and on. It's more delicate, less in your face than No.3 and Tempo, softer but still driven and purposeful nonetheless. The first vintage of Carillon from both dedicated vines and its own cellar facilities.

The Wine Advocate | RP 91-93
Published: Jun 10, 2020

Composed of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the 2019 Le Carillon d'Angelus is aging in French oak barrels, 60% new. Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, it springs from the glass with floral notes of lavender and red roses with a baking spice undercurrent and a core of redcurrant jelly, blackberry pie, black raspberries and cracked black pepper. Medium-bodied, the palate is wonderfully elegant and refreshing with loads of mineral-laced black fruit layers and a firm, fine-grained frame, finishing with great energy and bags of perfume. 

Vivino | Vivino 4.3

Château Angélus has a second wine named Le Carillon d’Angélus. It was first made in 1987 and accounts for 20 to 30% of the estate’s total production, depending on the year. It is blended from varying proportions of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon that are partly picked on unclassified plots with clayey limestone and clayey sandy limestone soils. The vines are cared for in exactly the same way as those used to make the main wine. The same attention is paid to detail and selection during the harvest and winemaking as for the main wine. It is also aged in barrels, but not for so long and only half the wood is new in order to suit the wine's specific requirements. Le Carillon d’Angélus therefore has its own identity and style. It is made to be kept for the mid-term and displays enjoyable fruit aromas of plum and sour cherry and has velvet-smooth tannins.