Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Amazingly harmonious, with pure, ripe fruit, exceptionally silky tannins, and restrained length. A magnificent style, not at all flamboyant. 2009 Angélus is one of the biggest success stories of the appellation and of the Right Bank in general. 18.5/19

Michael Schuster: Dense oak and black-cherry-fruit nose; nicely balanced in its oaky, muscular style; rich and juicy, pure in black cherry fruit, with a nice freshness, moderate complexity, and good length. A quite chewy, long-term texture and a touch hot and bitter from the alcohol. Needs at least a decade. Certainly a very good Angélus. 2020–30+. 16.5/17