Coravin fun - Dom. de Chevalier checking
My place, Kent Street
Tasted Wednesday, February 21, 2018 by chatters with 235 views
Introduction
Pulled out all the Domaine de Chevalier wines for Sunday and thought I'd better Coravin the virgins to make sure that there were no surprises on the day - not that I mind the odd surprise. In fact having some dodgy wines isn't a bad thing as it makes the good ones look even better (yeah, well, I would say that). Additionally as it will be a sit down lunch I'm guessing I'm not going to get much time to examine these closely on the weekend...
Flight 1 - Bracket one - Red (5 Notes)
By a strange quirk of fate I decided to do the reds first. The 2010 was a definite outlier in terms of ripeness and structure. The 11 and 13 were very similar, though.
Flight 2 - Bracket two - White (5 Notes)
The 11-14 vintages were a lot closer in style though with some delineation. The 2002 a little old perhaps.
Closing
What a lovely midweek treat! A little concern on the 2012 rouge so we'll see how it pulls up on the weekend.
1995 Domaine de Chevalier
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
From Coravin. Red currant, slight damp cellar, a bit dried out on the nose in fact. Touches of raisin and dusty oak backed by spice and meaty notes. Juicy, wet, fleshy but with quite muted flavours of fruit, leather, touches of spice and a little cigar box. Tannins are fine but present. Hmm.
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2010 Domaine de Chevalier
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
From Coravin. Rich. Cherry, blackcurrant and spice, slightly herbaceous plummy top notes. In the mouth it's fleshy and savoury with cherry, plums, plentiful drying talc textured tannins with oak spice joining on the long finish. Still very young. Pretty good but a puppy
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2011 Domaine de Chevalier
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
From Coravin. Jubey sour cherry fruit, herbaceous notes, cedar and a touch of meat and cream backed by almost spice bread as well as a touch of earthiness. Smells wet and all forest in the rain. Soft but savoury red berry and cherry, herbaceous notes, a lovely, juicy fleshiness with silky, grippy, persistent tannins. The whole is harmonious and travels long. Yum
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2012 Domaine de Chevalier
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
From Coravin. Plum, smells like the beginnings of cork taint initially with cedar and red cherry and a slightly dusty menthol quality on the nose. On the palate the fruit is a little muted and it finishes sour and spicy. Tannins are subdued. Hmm. I'll reserve judgement until Sunday I think
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2013 Domaine de Chevalier
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
From Coravin. Ooh, quite brambly, with bracken, five spice and earth. With time a little ream and red berry fruit, cedar. Wet, fleshy, slightly sour and sharp red and blackcurrant fruit. It's a little sharp and the tannins are controlled and reined in compared to the other vintages. Having said that it's still very pleasant
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