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  • Country ranking ?

    1 358
  • Producer ranking ?

    49
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

The winemaker’s role is to reflect the best the terroir has to offer and to reproduce the intrinsic taste parameters that correspond to Domaine de Chevalier.

Olivier Bernard describes Domaine de Chevalier’s white wines: “Our aim is not to make the wine as fruity as possible at all costs. Measured extraction and barrel ageing create very complex wines – beautifully fresh, never heavy, and with an incredibly long aftertaste that “unfolds like...

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Written Notes

Tasted on the 9th December 2016. Truffles, nice palate with firm tannins, fruit tasted a bit warm. However, very good complexity here.

  • 89p
Ruby with thin brick rim. Starting out a bit too plummy, earthy and pruney, it shaped up nicely after half an hour. More minerals and graphite, still some prunes and cassis, some leather as well. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins starting to polish off, fairly fresh but I would anyway drink it over the next few years as it seems to have little to gain. 91
  • 91p
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Bordeaux, Pessac Leognan
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