2016 Domaine de Chevalier
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Tasting notes
The 2016 Domaine de Chevalier has a creamy, sensual bouquet that is very different from Les Carmes Haut-Brion, perhaps more sheen, well defined, with black plum and tobacco in the background. Like others, this coheres extremely well in the glass. The palate is very well balanced, with gentle grip, just the right sapidity and a precise, fresh and saline finish. Classy. Tasted blind at the Southwold 10-Year-On tasting.
Critic scores
Average Score
James Suckling
Wine Spectator
More reviews and scores
Tasted blind. Dark crimson. Very voluptuous – almost overripe! – nose. Then pretty tarry and drying on the end. But there is lots there for the future. (JR)
Pungent and racy and still very youthful. Pure. Sleek and really gorgeous. (JR)
This is fabulous, exactly what you're looking for from a Chevalier in a year like 2016. Built, muscular but graceful and toned, full of Left Bank slate, cassis, cocoa bean and cigar box. In its drinking window but with plenty of life ahead. Carafe because those tannins are already, even at 10 years old, beginning to throw a deposit.
About the producer
Since buying the property in 1983, the Bernard family has cemented Domaine de Chevalier’s reputation as one of the Graves’s finest red and white wine producers, known for their sophisticated and elegant wines.