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Wine Description
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...
Wine Information
2003 will be remembered by wine professionals as the year of the heat wave, just as 1956 is remembered for its freezing cold winter and 1991 for its spring frost. 2003 will also go down in history as an early vintage with below average, or even very low yields at certain estates. Winemakers will recall the challenges they encountered: deciding on the best date to start picking, bringing the fermentation of very sweet must to successful complet...