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HPS Top 20
17. 2009 Villa des Anges Cabernet Sauvignon
"Villa des Anges" is crafted by winemaker Jeff Carrel at the Espitalet des Anges domaine in Capestang. Situated on the ruins of an ancient Roman villa, the domaine is owned by Jaqueline Menard de Ginestous, who married-into and is herself from a prominent Languedocienne wine-growing family.
88 pts. - “...represents another surprising success and outstanding value” (2010) – The Wine Advocate, 8/31/11
88 pts. - “Another outstanding value from Villa des Anges...”
(2009) – The Wine Advocate, 8/31/11
89 pts, "...as remarkable and improbable a wine value as I have tasted in years... Menard de Ginestous and Carrel have done the seemingly impossible - even forgetting the price - by crafting a full-bodied, subtly oily-textured, palpably dense, lip-smacking, not vegetal, yet not sweet Cabernet in the Languedoc." - The Wine Advocate, Values Report, 8/09 (2008 vintage).