Tasting Notes
Vinous 93
The 2015 Domaine de Chevalier has a perfumed, quite floral bouquet with rose petals and cedar infusing the red berry fruit, nicely detailed with blacker fruit uncovered by aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, sweet and rounded, very plush in style with a caressing, femme fatale of a finish. I have actually encountered better bottles than this, though it remains a class act. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.
Robert Parker 95
The 2015 Domaine de Chevalier is a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot picked from 23 September until 15 October at just 35 hl/ha, matured in 35% new oak. It has a sophisticated bouquet that is more reserved than its peers. It possesses one of the most precise, detailed aromatic profiles that I have encountered from this estate, wonderfully poised with black fruit, incense and cold stone. It has wonderful focus and class. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin, very complex with lightly peppered black fruit. What marks this Domaine de Chevalier is the reserve and precision on the finish, a wine that is holding something back for its secondary evolution, a salinity that beckons you back for another sip. What a fabulous, intellectual wine from Olivier Bernard. Expect four decades of drinking pleasure – probably more – given my experience of ancient vintages. Tasted three times with consistent notes.
Anticipated maturity: 2022-2055
Producer Profile
Red Wine
Area under vines: 45 hectares
Soils: Sol of dark sand and gine white gravel
Average age of the vines: 25 years
Planting density: 10 000 vines/ha
Production: 120 000 bottles a year
Ageing: in 40% new oak barrels for 14 to 24 months
Grape varieties:
- Cabernet Sauvignon 63%
- Merlot 30%
- Petit Verdot 5%
- Cabernet Franc 2%
White Wine
Area under vines: 4,5 hectares
Soils: Sol of dark sand and gine white gravel
Average age of the vines: 25 years
Planting density: 10 000 vines/ha
Production:25 000 bottles a year
Ageing: in 30% new oak barrels
Grape varieties:
- Sauvignon 70%
- Semillion 30%
Second wines: L’Esprit de Chevalier
- Average Annual Production: 65% of the total crop
- Grape varieties:
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
- Cabernet Franc
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