1982 Château L'Evangile Pomerol Bordeaux France Wine Tasting Note

Compelling in every sense of the word, 1982 L’Evangile is Pomerol at its best. Opulent, sensuous, cashmere-textured layers of chocolate-covered black cherries, plums, truffles, spice, and flowers coat your palate, lingering and expanding with a long, seamless finish. No decanting, just pop, pour, and enjoy the ride. Drink from 2025-2037.

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Lush, opulent, sexy and silky, this sensuously textured, full-bodied, concentrated wine loads you up with layer after of chocolate covered plums, black cherries, truffle and oyster shell. This decadent stunner is full-mature and should remain at this high level for at least another 15 years or more, if well-stored.

Sublime! The wine oozes sex, truffle and dark chocolate covered, black cherries, licorice and forest leaf. Silky, full, rich and velvety on the palate, this beauty is ready to go.

The truffle essence in this beauty. They just keep on coming. Just behind the truffle, you find flowers, plums, wet earth, forest and tobacco leaf aromas. Silky, intense, polished and complex, the wine moves from truffle, to fruit, to herbs and back to fruit. Everything really lingers and expands. There is a citrus note in the endnote that adds a lot to the complexity. This is fully mature, but should continue offering sublime drinking for years. The wine was made from a blend of 82% Merlot and 18% Cabernet Franc. Picking took place September 16 to September 23. The wine reached 12.85% ABV with a pH of 3.78. As a side note, for the 1982 vintage, the amount of new, French oak barrels used in close to 10%.

Ready to go, this is rockin at full speed! Lush, sensuous, opulent textures, loads of sweet, juicy black plums, smoke, licorice, dark chocolate and truffle, with a silky, sweet, dark, red berry finish. This is a hedonistic treat indeed.

Plummy, truffle, licorice, dark chocolate, mint and fresh strawberry notes open up the beguiling perfume. Silky, sexy, polished, and lush, the finish feels great on your palate with its opulent, sensuous textures.

Ruby in color, scents of truffle, smoke, black raspberry and hints of violet come forward with just a little bit of effort. With silky textures, the wine is supple and long ending with a sweet, fresh cherry finish with just a hint of green in the end note. This was a good bottle of a wine that is at times stunning.

A stunning nose of truffle, earth, chocolate, coffee, plums, barnyard, spice and black cherry explode as soon as the wine hits your glass. This is sexy, fat, dense, concentrated, lush and packed with silky, ripe and almost over ripe cherries. Opulent, bordering on decadence, this beautiful Bordeaux wine is drinking perfectly today.

This wine grabbed me from the first whiff of its ostentatious perfume. Truffles, chocolate fudge, Asian spice, forest floor and a hint of cherry pipe tobacco. This powerful wine is smooth as silk that feels like it was just polished with crushed velvet. Mouth coating layers of rich, black cherry liqueur and dark plums with hints of chocolate remain on your palate for almost 60 seconds! The improved in the glass for 2 hours. This will only get better with time.

Wow, this is a sex bomb of a wine. Thick, rich, deeply concentrated. Very opulent. The texture is like drinking liquid velvet. Still not fully mature, I expect this to improve and develop more complexity. But there is no reason to hold it as it’s so good today.

Plums, spices, black fruit and truffles soared from the glass. The palate was pleased with its silk meets power texture. The velvet laced finish was filled with plums, chocolate and spice.

Plums, oak, spices and a mélange of red and black fruit were easy to find. But the layers of decadent, ripe Pomerol fruit grabbed and kept your attention.

Tasting this wine reminded me of biting into a juicy ripe plum and savoring the fruit as it remained in my mouth. This wine was all about silk, opulence and satin. But it's no wimpy wine. It offers the palate a selection of ripe and almost over ripe red and black fruits. The texture silk and velvet.