1985 Château L'Evangile Pomerol Bordeaux France Wine Tasting Note

At full maturity, here you find, truffles, dark chocolate, sweet plums, wet earth and forest floor notes. Soft, refined, silky, and plummy, with a beautiful, dark red pit fruit finish, this is at its absolute peak, so if you have bottles of this, it is time to drink up over the next 5-8 years or so.

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It took no time at all the love this wine. In fact, I was sold after just the initial sniff and sip. But the love affair did not end there as the wine improved in the glass. The silky, elegant, sensually textured plums, chocolate and truffle coated black cherries kept on coming, both on the nose and palate. But the best part of the experience was the velvety, plummy, earthy finish. This is at its peak. So if you have a few bottles that you have been waiting on, now is the time to pop that cork as this is not going to get better from here. As a guess, I'd opt for drinking it over the next 5-10 years at the most, before it begins its gentle decline.

Popped and poured, this beauty let out its floral, cherry, tobacco and truffle aromas with ease. Medium/full bodied with a blend of plum, ripe cherries and bitter chocolate, the wine was silky, elegant and far too easy to drink, as the bottle was finished in record time.

This is fully mature. The color shows a tea hue that crries right on through to its ruby edges. Earthy, leafy, truffley and with dark red fruits, the wine is silky and fresh, with a brightness to the red fruits and plums. The wine was made from a blend of 76% Merlot and 24% Cabernet Franc. At this point in time, there was no second being made. The wine reached 12.45% ABV. The harvest took place from September 22 to October 2.

If you're in the mood for truffle, plum, dark cocoa and black cherry, you came to the right place. Silky, soft, round, and mature, no decanting necessary. The wine feels great on your palate with all its sweet, earthy plums. There is a touch of herbs and olive in the finish that adds to the complexity.

Textbook mature Pomerol packed with truffle, plum, chocolate, black cherry and spice, plush textures and a a layer of sweet, ripe, dark red berries and cocoa in the finish. The is showing great today. There is no reason to age this any longer.

Fully mature, with a truffle, tobacco, plum, dark cherry and earthy nose, the wine is soft and round, finishing with an elegant, plum and cocoa note. Fully mature, there is no reason to wait to pop a cork.

Chocolate covered cherries, truffle, plums, spice box and fresh floral scents emerge with little effort. This is a rich, concentrated, full bodied effort that offers an opulent, sophisticated character. The wine finishes with a sensuous, lush, long, truffle, spice and black cherry liqueur sensation. This Pomerol is fully mature. There is no reason to wait as it's unlikely to improve much from here.

Beautiful truffle scents, fresh plums, complicated by coffee, smoke, chocolate, forest floor and all spice creates a beautiful complex perfume. This fully mature Pomerol is pure sensuous, elegance in a glass. Sweet ripe plums, cherries, cocoa and spice linger in the finish.

Truffles, plums bitter chocolate, spice, cassis and earthy aromas, soft, delicate, feminine textures and a black cherry, spice and plum finish are found in this fully mature Pomerol wine.

1985 L'Evangile is filled with truffle, plum, floral, tobacco, forest floor, nutmeg and earthy aromas. Fully mature, with the patina of age in the mouth, elegant and refined textures, the wine concludes with spice filled, blackberry and red plum sensations. This wine is at the peak of maturity. It needs to be drunk up within the next 5 years before it starts to gently decline.

Truffle, tobacco, chocolate, plum, mocha and fresh berrie scents poke out of the glass. This plummy wine is soft, elegant, supple and round in texture and ends in a fresh, black raspberry, plum and coco filled finish. This is probably close to full maturity.

The intoxicating perfume of raspberries, anise, mushrooms and spices fill the air. The palate is bathed in silky, essences of ripe red and black fruits. If a dictionary gave an example of a sensuous, elegant Bordeaux, the 85 L' Evangile would be the wine used to illustrate that example. Close to full maturity, this will easily 15 or more years.