2025 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Pessac-Léognan; 75% Sauvignon blanc; 25% Sémillon; 13.5% alcohol; tasted three times, the final time at the UGCB tasting at the Cité du Vin). So true to its identity that this would (or at least should be) an easy pick in a blind tasting (easier said than done I know). I love the apple skin crispness of this. Crunchy is the word; the more onomatopoeic 'croquant' even better. Bright, but rich, relaxed, authoritative and elqouent, this is fabulous. The spice is gentle but brings additional detail and interest, whilst never drawing attention away from the glorious florality and the zestiness of the fruit. Racy and vibrant, fresh and explosively sapid in the mid-palate before the rapier-like precision of the sculpted finish. There's great purity here and this seems to transcend the vintage.
96-98/100 Colin Hay

The 2025 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc soars from the glass with vibrant notes of grapefruit essence, Granny Smith apples, and passion fruit, leading to a fragrant undercurrent of honeysuckle, lime blossoms, and sea spray. The medium-bodied palate is intense with citrus and tropical fruit layers with a refreshing line and chalky texture, finishing with great length and energy. The blend is 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Sémillon. The alcohol is 13.5% with a pH of 3.29.
95-97/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Straight from the first nose this is clearly one of the whites of the vintage. The most beautifully flinty and sculpted citrus and pear. Harvest August 25 to September 6. 33% new oak. In organic conversion. It's now been a decade of vineyard work to ensure that the white grapes are in the coolest part of the estate, and ageing takes place in a variety of differently sized barrels, with plenty of lees work that changes every year - so in 2024 they stirred through the December, this year only October because the richness was already there. In a word, they know what they are doing and you can rest easy.
95/100 Jane Anson