Domaine de Chevalier Rouge, Grand Cru Classé, 2023

Name: Domaine de Chevalier Rouge, Grand Cru Classé
Brand: Domaine de Chevalier
Price: 275 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2000 2018 2021 2022 2023 2024

justerini & brooks tasting note

Olivier Bernard's wonderful Domaine de Chevalier 2023 is drop dead gorgeous. As ever, Olivier favours a genteel, natural style with a calm delivery. Beautiful aromatics of spiced berried, creme de mûre, violets, cigar wrappers and loamy earth emanate from the glass. There's plenty of volume to the core of creamy, dark, mulberry fruit with hints of dried raspberry that leads to charming, creamy tannins, which give the impression of a gentle hand on the tiller. This is a really lovely, fluid and cohesive Domaine de Chevalier. Glorious. 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc

critic reviews

94-96/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

The 2023 Domaine de Chevalier has a deep garnet-purple color. It is a little broody and oaky to start, needing coaxing to bring out a gorgeous core of black cherries, redcurrants, and cassis, with underlying hints of violets and forest floor. The medium to full-bodied palate has a solid frame of firm, grainy tannins and bright acidity supporting the muscular fruit, finishing long and minerally. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, and 5% Cabernet Franc.

DRINKING WINDOW 2029 - 2050

date of review 05/2024

95/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Always one of the benchmark wines of a vintage, and here showcasing the quality of Cabernet Sauvignon in 2023 (as well as the potential for varying yields, as they are down at 30hl/h here). Well balanced, great depth of ink, cassis, bilberry and damson fruits, rises through the palate, with tannic grip and plenty of grilled but carefully judged oak. A great Chevalier, not perhaps at the very top of recent vintages here, but one that will give huge amounts of pleasure, and captures the great classicsm of the year. 35% new oak for ageing, Bernard family owners.

DRINKING WINDOW 2029 - 2046

date of review 05/2024

94-96/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2023 Domaine de Chevalier was picked from September 7 to 30 and contains 13% alcohol. This is quintessential "DdC" on the nose: black fruit, sous-bois and hints of black olive at first, subtle marine notes emerging with time in the glass. There’s wonderful focus and delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with pencil-shaving-tinged black fruit on the entry. Perhaps a bit grippier with more spine than one would expect (especially following the more sensual 2022), this is very traditional in style, with a tremendously long and satisfying saline finish. Superb.

DRINKING WINDOW 2029 - 2060

date of review 04/2024

94-96/100Yohan Castaing,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2023 Domaine de Chevalier reveals a perfumed, incipiently complex bouquet of dark wild berries, cassis, rose petals, spices and licorice. Medium to full-bodied, concentrated and rich, with a fleshy core of fruit framed by powdery tannins and bright acids, it concludes with a long, saline, gently oak-inflected finish. This blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc is maturing in 40% new barrels.

DRINKING WINDOW 2025 - 2045

date of review 04/2024