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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...
Vintage 1987
The 1987 Bordeaux vintage was an overcast, damp, and weather-challenged harvest across both banks that produced early-drinking, light-to-medium-bodied wines characterized by soft, delicate fruit and lower tannin profiles. Following a cold winter and a rainy spring that caused widespread coulure and reduced potential yields, a warm, dry July offered temporary promise before August and September brought persistent rains and limited sunshine, imp...
