Domaine de Chevalier Pessac-Leognan Cru Classé 2017 i trækasse

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.

Anthocyanes Yohan Castaing

Jeb Dunnuck

A gem that readers should snatch up is unquestionably the 2017 Domaine De Chevalier, which is based on 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot that spent 18 months in just 35% new French oak. This deeply colored effort offers classic blackberry and blackcurrant fruits as well as medium to full body, complex notes of tobacco, gravelly earth, and chocolate, beautiful tannins, and a great finish. This is a classy, flawlessly balanced 2017 that offers up pleasure even today, yet it will keep for 30+ years. Having just had the good fortune to drink a bottle of the 1920, now at 100 years after the vintage, the longevity of this cuvee should not be underestimated.

Markus del Monego MW

A wonderful, quite classic style, rather elegant that sheer power.

Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

Smoke, incense, blackberry, dark cherry and a slight hint of fig in the background create an aromatic profile. This wine shows ripe fruits, sweetness, freshness and gentle tannins. In a perfect scenario the finish would be longer but this is truly a very fine wine that will shine with just a few years in the cellar. Made from a blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, the wine reached 13.5% alcohol. The higher than usual percentage of Cabernet in the blend is due to damage from the frost.

Wine Spectator

Ripe and full in feel, with a swath of cassis, plum paste and fig preserve flavors that holds sway from start to finish, allowing roasted apple wood, licorice snap and black tea accents to chime in along the way. The fruit takes a solid encore on the finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. Best from 2023 through 2036.

Robert Parker

The 2017 Domaine de Chevalier is deep garnet-purple in color with a nose of baked plums, black cherry compote, fruitcake and violets plus wafts of fragrant earth and rosehip tea. Medium-bodied, the palate has loads of fruit with plush, rounded tannins and a lively finish. A blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, this vintage spent 18 months in French oak, 35% new. Drinking Window : 2022 - 2039

Vert de Vin Magazine

The nose is fruity, mineral, racy, precise and well-built. It reveals notes of fresh blackberry, fresh cassis and racy minerality associated with small notes of fresh raspberry as well as a hint of flowers, camphor and fine/discreet touches of spices (in the background). The palate is fruity, mineral, fresh, elegant, precise and offers juiciness, a beautiful acid frame, a fine creaminess, tension, straightness as well as a good definition. On the palate this wine expresses notes of crushed blackberry, crushed cassis and more slightly fleshy strawberry associated with small touches of racy minerality, ripe/fleshy red berries, chocolate, liquorice, Bourbon vanilla as well as discreet touches of rose, caramelization and toasted almond on the finish. Tannins are slightly firm. Good length.

Jean-Marc Quarin

Tastingbook.com

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