Château L'Evangile - Pomerol - Red - 2020

Wine:

With 88% Merlot, harvested early to avoid the intense late-summer heat, the 2020 red Château L’Évangile Pomerol delivers superb freshness, bringing focus and precision to its ripe, expressive fruit flavours and generous depth. Layers of black fruit aromas, exotic spices, violet, and a hint of mocha unfold in a silky, harmonious texture that promises to evolve beautifully over the years. Rated 95/100 by both Parker and the French wine guide RVF.

Vinification:

Hand harvested. Clay soils. Yield 32hl/ha. Alcoholic fermentation for 10 days, maceration between 21 and 25 days. Aged for 18 months in new barrels.

Temperature:

Serve between 14 and 16°C.

Food and wine pairing:

Roast pigeon with porcini mushrooms, filet mignon of venison, beef rib in a herb crust, 7-hour leg of lamb, mature farmhouse Saint-Nectaire.

Cellar aging:

From today until 2038, and even longer for enthusiasts.

Perfectly positioned between Petrus and Cheval Blanc, L’Évangile continues its transformation under the stewardship of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite).

The 2020 vintage—Juliette Couderc’s first—marks a major stylistic shift: refined extraction, precision texture, ultra-polished tannins, and a captivatingly saline finish.