2002 Angélus
France
Saint Émilion 1er Grand Cru Classé "A"
Bordeaux
Red
60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Franc (2023 vintage)
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2022 - 2040
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Hubert de Bouard harvested during the first half of October, bringing in a crop of 39 hectoliters per hectare after having thinned the clusters on the merlot vines in July. "The old vines produced five bunches per vine rather than a normal two or three," he told me, "and the young vines would have produced 20 or more if we had let them." Angelus weighs in at 13.9% alcohol, with an IPT of 90. "The skins were thoroughly ripe but the insides of the grapes only moderately ripe," Bouard told me. "We actually had more seed tannins in 2003, but they were riper than those of 2004." Accordingly, Bouard extracted energetically early in the fermentation, then very gently later on.
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Hubert de Bouard faced an interesting challenge in 2003. He had hugely ripe cabernet franc with excellent balance but he had to be careful how much he included in the blend. He ultimately decided on 50% cabernet franc and 50% merlot, "because 60% or more of cabernet franc would have made a monster, and a wine that would not have been typical for Angelus." Three-quarters of the franc was harvested during the first several days of October, he told me, and the potential alcohol ranged as high as 15%, or higher than the estate's merlot. Bouard did a full extraction of the cabernet franc because, he said, the pips were brown and totally ripe (the index of polyphenols is an extremely high 87). The blend today has alcohol just under 14%, a pH of 3.85 and decent acidity of 3.2 grams.
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Hubert de Bouard picked his cabernet franc at glorious ripeness in October, with grape sugars between 13% and 13.5%, despite the fact that this vineyard normally ripens early. The final blend will include more than 50% cabernet franc, which was fatter, and slightly lower in acidity, than the estate's merlot. The young 2002 was still on its lees, unracked, in early April.
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