Chateau l´Evangile 1975

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "One of the finest mature Pomerols in my cellar is the 1975 L'Evangile, a wine I have drunk three times this year at the time of writing. Offering up a complex and compelling bouquet of plums, sweet berries, vine smoke, baking spices, fruitcake and truffles, it's full-bodied, satiny and sensual, with melted tannins, ripe acids and a seamless, enveloping profile, concluding with a sapid finish. While it is fully mature today, it appears to be in no danger of imminent decline."

JANCIS ROBINSON: "This may not have been a good bottle. I thought it didn’t smell quite pristine. It also looked a bit simple – none of the glorious shading of hues that was obvious in the other wines. But it was sleek and harmonious like the Evangile 1985. Sweet, ready with a slightly metallic, disconcerting quality."