Domaine de Chevalier 2015

Domaine de Chevalier, Grand Cru Classé de Graves, Pessac Léognan, Bordeaux, France, 2015 

Grapes: 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot & 5% Petit Verdot, 60ha vineyard with gravel over clay-gravel subsoil, hand picked, 18 months in oak (35% new).

Producer Tasting Note:

Intense dark red colour. Very fresh nose, charming and attractive. On the palate, the attack is silky and delicious, it gives way to an exquisite fruity flesh with a very dense structure. Wine is fine, complex and elegant with a lovely mineral freshness. We find the silky and fleshy quality of 2009, combined with the beautiful structure of 2005.

Critics' Tasting Notes: 

"Great tension and subtlety. Extremely savoury -almost salty - with freshness and ripeness. Not one of the deepest colours. Lovely appetising low-key classicism. Bravissimo à tous!" Drink 2024-2045

18/20 points, Jancis Robinson, jancisrobinson.com, April 2016

"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." Drink 2022-2055

95-97/100 points, Neal Martin, robertparker.com, April 2016