1988 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  9/5/2020 - cfk49 wrote: 93 Points

  Semillon has taken over and dominated this wine -- giving it some vanilla notes that some confuse with new oak. Still quite youthful with room to improve, but showing finesse, elegance, and firmness. Old white Bordeaux are rare and greatly underappreciated. Cellared since original release.

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  6/21/2020 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Absolutely perfect bottle of this. Fresh, crisp and mineral-driven, with notes of grass, herb, citrus, a touch of petrol, stones. Medium+ bodied, with medium+ acidity and very good length. Beautiful. Full of tension and freshness. Really stunning for a wine of this age.

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  2/12/2020 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 90 Points

  In magnum. Lemongrass and menthol cream on the nose and palate. Simple and easy to like.

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  12/6/2018 - cfk49 wrote: 90 Points

  Chalky with yellow fruits, medium-weight, very good freshness still, but given my past experiences with old whites from DDC and Graves/Pessac-Léognan in general, I had expected/hoped for more. Cellared since original release.

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  7/27/2018 - AV2012 wrote:

  Again beautiful clear colour. Grassy, ripe lemon, lovely complexity. Vegetality of green tea, some reduction in the beginning.

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