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2022 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux

  • White
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Sauvignon Blanc (70%), Sémillon (30%)
Not ready (Drink 2025 - 2036)
Jancis Robinson MW
17+/20
Neal Martin MW
92-94/100
Georgie Hindle
94/100
Jeb Dunnuck
95-97+/100
Antonio Galloni
95-97/100
James Suckling
98-99/100
93-96/100
Product: 20221173547

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2022 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux

Description

This is the best dry white Bordeaux of the vintage, making a virtue of its textures and richness. There are lots of fine-tuning and adjustments here as Olivier Bernard looks to find a voice for dry white Bordeaux in the era of climate change. Vine density has been increased but yield maintained, so each vine doesn’t work so hard. Harvesting is only in the morning, by micro-parcel.

Olivier is now using larger barrels to preserve more freshness but ageing reductively to retain precision. The perfumes are now of herb and plant, and firm white fruits. This is such an admirable, intuitive wine, almost a reinvention of the genre.

Sauvignon Blanc 70%; Sémillon 30%

Drink 2026-2045

Score: 18/20

Berry Bros. & Rudd (April 2023)

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2022
Alcohol % 13.5%
Maturity Not ready (2025 - 2036)
Grape List Sauvignon Blanc (70%), Sémillon (30%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Domaine De Chevalier

Critics reviews

Jancis Robinson MW 17+/20
Light nose but a very convincingly mineral palate. Some real delicacy. How did they manage that? Sleek and smoky. A wine for white-burgundy lovers … Very juicy. I suspect this will go through many stages. Drink 2025-2040 jancis_robinson_mw, JancisRobinson.com (April 2023)
Drink 2025 - 2040
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Apr 2023)
Neal Martin MW 92-94/100
The 2022 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc was picked from 22 August to 1 September. It has an instantly satisfying bouquet as it "launches" scents of passion fruit, lemon rind and patisserie scents, very well-defined and focused. The palate is intense on the entry and impressive in weight and density. Perhaps there's not quite the tension of the previous vintage, but it is long and thickly textured on the finish. Excellent. Drink 2028-2048 Neil Martin, Vinous.com.com (April 2023)
Drink 2025 - 2040
Neal Martin MW, Vinous.com (Apr 2023)
Georgie Hindle 94/100
Round, full, compelling, charming and confident, this has a width and density that is really well worked, calm, not super vibrant but really rich in terms of fruit expression with coolness, white stone fruit flavours and some subtle toasting. Feels structured and well worked, serious but not as tense as many with more fruit persistence and depth than a lot of the whites this year. Perhaps missing a touch of acidity bit this is very good indeed and ends with a zestiness that is really appealing. Tasted twice. Derenoncourt consultants. Drink 2023-2030 Georgina Hindle, Decanter (April 2023)
Drink 2025 - 2040
Georgie Hindle, Decanter.com (Apr 2023)
Jeb Dunnuck 95-97+/100
The 2022 Domaine De Chevalier Blanc brings more dimensions and layers, as well as richness. Based on 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Sémillon, aging in 40% new oak, it has a beautiful perfume of honeyed citrus, subtle tropical flowers, and chalky, minerality nuances. This carries to a medium to full-bodied white with plenty of density and depth, nicely integrated acidity, and a gorgeous finish. I wouldn't be surprised to see this end up in the top handful of whites in the vintage. jeb_dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2023)
Drink 2025 - 2040
Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2023)
Antonio Galloni 95-97/100
The 2022 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc is stunning. It exudes textural depth, intensity and pedigree from the very first taste. I imagine it will still be stellar in another few years’ time. For now, it is a wine to think about cellaring. Time brings out dried lemon peel, sage, mint, chamomile, salt and crushed rock scents that lend both vibrancy and complexity. In most vintages, the Blanc is either incredibly steely or ample in feel. In 2022, it is both. Tasted four times. Drink 2027-2047 antonio_galloni, Vinous.com.com (April 2023)
Drink 2025 - 2040
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Apr 2023)
James Suckling 98-99/100
A deep and layered white with rich and intense structure. It’s full yet agile with so much energy and intensity. Cooked apple, lime zest and nougat with oyster and sea bed undertones. Fascinating already. james_suckling, jamessuckling_com (April 2023)
Drink 2025 - 2040
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Apr 2023)
93-96/100
The 2022 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc offers up aromas of pear, nectarine, crushed mint jasmine and lemon, followed by a medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated palate with a mineral-driven profile. It's lively and bright, with a delicate, penetrating finish animated by racy acids. This blend of 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Sémillon, matured entirely in large wooden foudres and 500-liter barrels instead of the traditional barriques, is one of the finest white wines of the vintage, and one of the few that transcends its limitations.Wine Advocate (April 2023)
Drink 2025 - 2040
RobertParker.com (Apr 2023)

About this wine

Pessac-Léognan

Pessac-Léognan

In 1986 a new communal district was created within Graves, based on the districts of Pessac and Léognan. Pessac-Léognan has the best soils of the region, very similar to those of the Médoc, although the depth of gravel is more variable, and contains all the classed growths of the region. Some of its great names, including Ch. Haut-Brion, even sit serenely and resolutely in Bordeaux's southern urban sprawl.
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