Chateau Angelus Bottle:12 Takara Sake USA has taken

Takara Sake USA has taken pure snow melt from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and superior rice from the fertile Sacramento Valley

Zenith is the winery's estate vineyard

This is an elegant

releasing scents of yellow apple and peach

and peach are followed by flavors of tangerine

Chateau Angelus Bottle:12 Takara Sake USA has takenKudos to proprietor Hubert Bouard, who has been making brilliant wines at this estate since the mid to late 1980s. A blend of 58% Cabernet Franc and 42% Merlot, the beautiful (14% alcohol; 6,500 cases produced) is somewhat tightly knit, but it reveals a perfumed nose of rose petals, blackberries, menthol, and cedar. This broad, sweet supple attack is followed by a tannic mid section. The wine does not appear to be as dense or structured as the 2004.