Domaine de Chevalier 2016-2020, Grand Cru Classé de Graves - 5 Jahrgänge zum Sonderpreis

Jahrgang 2016:

97 Punkte James Suckling: Aromas of blackberries, red and dark plums, cedar and gravel, as well as red flowers and brown-leaf tea. It offers a very sleek and powerful array of ripe dark fruit and a very plush, focused and elegant bed of fresh, fine and powerful tannins. Plenty of aging potential, this is still quite tight. A blend of 55 per cent cabernet sauvignon, 35 per cent merlot, five per cent cabernet franc and five per cent petit verdot.

96 Punkte Wine Spectator: The core of fruit flavor here is sappy and dense, with lots of kirsch, raspberry pâte de fruit and plum reduction notes, yet this stays fresh and racy overall, with a bright iron spine, flashes of tea and tobacco and a long finish that shows a wonderful infusion of alder and tobacco flavors. Offers a lovely combination of prodigious fruit details, with a tug of earth.

Jahrgang 2017:

96 Punkte James Suckling:
Lots of blueberry, hot-stone, slate and walnut aromas. Terracotta, too. Iodine. Full-bodied, round and dense with layers of fine tannins. Lovely depth and intensity. Extremely long and focused. Needs three or four years of bottle age just to start. Try after 2024.

Jahrgang 2018:

99 Punkte James Suckling: The intensity and perfumes on the nose are extremely impressive, offering pure blackberries and violets, as well as bark, wild-mushroom and raw-tile notes. It’s full-bodied with creamy tannins that envelop the wine and a gorgeous, subtly complex center palate with all the flavors found on the nose. Endless finish. Love the finesse and length to this. Greatest ever. 65% cabernet sauvignon, 30% merlot and 5% petit verdot.

Der Wein liegt auf Platz 3 der TOP 100 - Frankreich von James Suckling.
Platz 1 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2008
Platz 2 Château Trotanoy, Pomerol 2018
Platz 3 Domaine de Chevalier, Pessac-Léognan 2018
...
Platz 10 Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac 2018
Platz 11 Château Margaux, Margaux 2018
Platz 12 Château Lafleur, Pomerol 2018
.... und viele weitere, deutlich teurere Weine!

Jahrgang 2019:

97 Punkte James Suckling: Beautiful, ripe redcurrants, bay leaf, violets and raspberries on the nose. Full-bodied with firm and very tight tannins that are polished and layered. Crushed stones highlight the beautiful blue fruit. Poised and refined. 60% cabernet sauvignon, 30% merlot, 6% petit verdot and 4% cabernet franc.

97 Punkte Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2019 Domaine de Chevalier is a magical wine in the making, wafting from the glass with aromas of wild plums, crushed blackcurrants and violets mingled with hints of pencil shavings, subtle spices and coniferous forest floor. Medium to full-bodied, deep and seamless, with a vibrant core of fruit, beautifully refined tannins and lively acids, it's exquisitely elegant and harmonious, concluding with a long, perfumed finish. Stylistically, this wine exhibits a much closer affinity with the great Domaine de Chevalier of yesteryear than much of what was produced here in the early 2000s. It's a masterclass in what contemporary Bordeaux can deliver, and worth a special effort to seek out.

97 Punkte Jeff Leve!

Jahrgang 2020:

99 Punkte James Suckling: The purity of fruit is really something here, with blackcurrants and blackberries, together with orange, stone and granite character. Mind-boggling in many ways. Full-bodied with very fine tannins that are polished and pure. Such a fine texture. Lots of primary fruit. Like picking wonderfully ripe grapes. Great length. One for the cellar.

95+ Punkte Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2020 Domaine de Chevalier is a touch more tightly wound than the brilliant 2019 out of the gates, but it seems likely to equal that vintage with a bit of time. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of minty blackberries and cassis mingled with notions of burning embers, spices, rose petals and orange rind, it's medium to full-bodied, fleshy and concentrated, with a deep core of fruit, powdery structuring tannins and a long, saline finish. As I wrote last year, this estate in recent vintages has arrived at a sort of stylistic contemporary classicism that evokes the great wines of yesteryear from this address, and the 2020 continues that trend.

5 x 0,75l zum Sonderpreis statt Einzelpreis 423,- €

13-14,5% Alkoholgehalt

Enthält Sulfit

SCS Domaine de Chevalier - Famille Bernard
Proprietaire á Leognan, Bordeaux, France
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