domaine de chevalier rouge grand cru classe

Domaine de Chevalier

Domaine de Chevalier Rouge, Grand Cru Classé, 2015

Name: Domaine de Chevalier Rouge, Grand Cru Classé
Brand: Domaine de Chevalier

95/100

Inside Bordeaux

96/100

The Wine Independent

93/100

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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Olivier Bernard describes 2020 as the “most powerful vintage” ever recorded at Domaine de Chevalier. It started early and finished early and due to the droughts in July and September, they harvested berries with very thick skins and little juice. The UGC sample was very lovely and ranked as one of the best wines on show, but we just yearned for a bit more intensity on the mid-palate, so we requested a fresh bottle, and boy was it good. Fragrant with cool leafy blackcurrant fruit, nice delineation, pencil lead, crushed stones, a tang of black raspberry, cracked spices, clay and heather. On the palate this has a cool ripeness, mid-weight flavours of mulberry and blackberry, seriously refined and intense fruit laced with cool mineral notes. As one would expect the attack is elegant and precise with good freshness and lift, packed with savoury cassis, sweet black cherry and layers of bramble and briar; there’s a gravelly exoticism to the dark core of fruit, complex and seductive. This harnesses the natural power and concentration of the vintage in such an effortless and refined way. There’s no sense of weight or warmth – it glides across the palate with verve and precision. The velvety tannins and supple laced with a salty, mineral complexity. Glorious.

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Critic Reviews

95/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

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drinking window 2025 - 2042

date of review 02/2025

96/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

Deep garnet in color, the 2015 Domaine de Chevalier Rouge needs a little coaxing to reveal notes of baked black cherries, redcurrant jelly, and plum preserves with suggestions of unsmoked cigars, tapenade, and rosehip tea. The medium-bodied palate has intense red and black berry preserves layers with a firm structure of grainy tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and perfumed.

drinking window 2024 - 2049

date of review 11/2022

93/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

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.

date of review 07/2019

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