Domaine de Chevalier - actually on 2 December 2016
Tasted Tuesday, January 3, 2017 by PanosKakaviatos with 488 views
Wine is a drink for civilized discourse, as I found out yet again, close to my 50th birthday, over dinner with friends and family, with a horizontal of mostly 1966 Bordeaux on Friday evening 2 December 2016. Host Olivier Bernard of Domaine de Chevalier has a justified reputation as being savvy, gentlemanly, suave, fun loving and truly passionate about wine. Over dinner, he enjoys serving older wines blind that end in the same number of the current year, and asks dinner guests to make educated guesses. It was a great dinner, including Jean-Claude Berrouet, former winemaker at Petrus. More details on the dinner, with plenty of pictures:
http://wine-chronicles.com/blog/bordeaux-1966-50-years-on/
1996 Deutz Champagne Brut Millésimé 90 Points
France, Champagne
Mature color, and tasted mature, yet lively and finely textured. From memory, it exuded stone fruit aromatics and flavors with slight notes of hazelnut and toffee, providing a touch of complexity to the vibrant aspect of this wine that went down very smoothly. We all enjoyed it.
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1996 Dom Pérignon Champagne Oenothèque 97 Points
France, Champagne
Spends more years on the lees in bottle than the regular Dom Perignon. The chiseled precision of the vintage, with gorgeously fine bubbles provided magnificent texture. The color of the wine was younger looking than the Deutz, although both are from the same vintage. Guest Shaun Bishop, CEO of JJ Buckley wine importers in California, remarked that he would have thought that the wine was from 2008, had it been served blind. The flavors were toasty brioche, wet stone and fine citrus, of finesse and subtlety, and the length went on and on. Dinner guest and noted Bordeaux wine author Jane Anson tweeted that it counted among the top three wines of the evening, and later wrote a Decanter text counting it as among her top ten wines tasted in 2016. I agree.
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