2005 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (112) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  3/23/2024 - bobsabayesian wrote: 93 Points

  Quick TN: great acid, jumps out of the glass, long finish. Yum
  
  Drink!
  
  Will update on night 2

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  1/1/2024 - jonnyoro wrote: flawed

  Terribly oxidized. Perfect storage.

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  10/17/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points

  Domaine visit. Very popular wine, precise and generous with lovely citrus notes. They use DIAM cork now to avoid oxidation issues. 93-94

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  9/29/2023 - The Wine Monkeys Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Beautiful notes of citrus, floral, dry stone and faint salinity. PNP the acidity was ever so slightly pronounced but after an hour blended seamlessly. The palate offered up tropical fruit, mild candied lemon, maybe even a hint of vanilla. Long and effortless on the finish. Impeccable balance. Amazing wine.

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  9/10/2023 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  A blend of Sauvignon Blanc (85%) and Sémillon (15%). Fermented and aged for 18 months in oak barriques (35% new). Bottled in June 2007. 13% alcohol.
  
  Pale lemon-yellow color. The nose feels complex, quite evolved and even very slightly oxidative with aromas of roasted nuts and caramel, some creamy oak tones, a little bit of ripe citrus fruits, light beeswax tones, a hint of burnt sugar and a touch of bruised apple. The wine feels evolved, complex and subtly oxidative on the palate with a medium body and intense flavors of walnuts and woody notes of savory oak spice, a little bit of bruised apple, light pithy grapefruit bitterness, a hint of ripe lemony citrus fruits and a touch of woolly lanolin. The acidity keeps the wine nicely in balance, lending good sense of freshness and some sense of structure to the wine. The finish is long, evolved and slightly oxidative with a nuanced aftertaste of chopped walnuts, some bruised apple, light woody notes of savory oak spice, a little bit of ripe citrus fruits, a hint of browned butter and a touch of stony minerality.
  
  A sophisticated, balanced and quite evolved Bordeaux Blanc at its peak. The wine is not past its peak yet, but the oxidative tones are starting to be present and it feels obvious that the wine is not going to benefit from any further aging. The overall feel was somewhat more aged and tertiary compared to the 2004 vintage I had tasted before and noticeably older compared to the 2008 and 2010 vintages. We tasted this wine next to the 2009 Haut-Bergey Blanc and while the overall style here was less oaky and more classically styled, this wine didn't manage to reach the freshness and intensity of that 2009 Haut-Bergey. All in all, this was a fine and balanced Chevalier, but it hasn't reached the level of the best Chevalier Blancs I've tasted, and - unless we had a prematurely evolved bottle - probably never will.

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