More about Chateau L'Evangile

L'Evangile sits where Pomerol's great names crowd together: next door to La Conseillante, a short walk from Petrus, and separated from Cheval Blanc and Saint-Émilion by little more than a dirt track. That address goes a long way toward explaining a wine that manages to be both opulent and refined.

The estate is one of the oldest in Pomerol, known as Fazilleau before it took the name L'Evangile. Jean-Paul Chaperon gave it its present name in 1862 and later built the château, and it later passed to the Ducasse family, whose formidable Simone Ducasse ran it from the early 1980s. In 1990 she sold a controlling stake to the Rothschilds of Château Lafite, who bought the rest in 1999 and built new gravity-fed cellars in time for the 2005 vintage.

Today there are 22 hectares on a patchwork of iron-streaked blue clay at the top of the plateau, with gravel and sand lower down toward Cheval Blanc. The vineyard is roughly four-fifths Merlot and one-fifth Cabernet Franc, farmed organically and certified since 2021. Parcels are fermented separately in concrete and the grand vin spends about 18 months, mostly in new French oak with some clay amphorae. The second wine, Blason de l'Evangile, draws largely on the sandier plots and younger vines. Expect dark plum and black fruit, a floral lift and silky, generous tannins.

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