A stunning white Bordeaux blend (70% Sauvignon Blanc, 30% Sémillon) from one of Pessac-Léognan’s finest estates. Bursting with citrus, white peach, pineapple, and delicate floral notes, it’s creamy yet vibrant, with a long, elegant finish. Rated 96 points by both Wine Advocate and James Suckling, this is pure class in a glass — drinkable now, but built to shine for decades.

The Wine Advocate | RP 96
Published: Apr 7, 2022
Drink: 2025-2050

Domaine de Chevalier's 2019 Blanc is performing brilliantly, unwinding in the glass with notes of citrus pith, white currants, crisp orchard fruit, spring flowers, lemongrass and beeswax. Medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, it's concentrated and structured, with terrific depth at the core, racy acids and a long, sapid finish. This is a white Bordeaux where the vulgarity of Sauvignon is sublimated rather than emphasized, and the result is a compelling wine of considerable complexity and aging potential.

This 67-hectare estate in Pessac-Léognan is at the top of its game today, and the 2019 vintage is a striking success. When the Bernard family purchased Domaine de Chevalier in 1983, the vineyards amounted to only 20 hectares: expansion followed in the woodlands (much of which remain) that occupy this site, on the same stony gravel and black sand over iron-rich clay that defines the estate's historic vineyards. It's a cold site in winter, surrounded by trees, but warm in summer, as the stones reflect heat and the black sands absorb it. Farming is now organic and biodynamic, with experiments with cover crops and unhedged canopies, and drainage to improve more humid parcels. Sauvignon Blanc is planted in the estate's coolest sites, Cabernet Sauvignon on its warmest, and everything else is planted in between. Since 1983, Domaine de Chevalier has naturally evolved: as new plantings came online, the wines lost some of the intensity-without-weight that had always been their signature; in the early 2000s, a concerted effort was made to attain fuller maturity and more concentration, and the wines became a little chunkier and more obviously oaky, too; but recent years have seen a return to seamless elegance, without any loss of depth or persistence. In many respects, indeed, the last few vintages of Domaine de Chevalier bear a closer stylistic kinship to the great wines produced at this address in the 1970s and before than they do to the vintages of the early 2000s. Olivier Bernard and his team, in short, are to be congratulated for ushering in a new golden age at an estate that produces one of Bordeaux's most singular and characterful wines.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 96
Published: Feb 1, 2022

Very pretty with lovely apple, cream, lavender, pineapple and light honey. Full-bodied, yet creamy and refined, with great length and polish. Fresh acidity, but the finish is polished and pretty. Subtle. 70% sauvignon blanc and 30% semillon. Drink in 2024.

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 18.5
Published: Oct 11, 2023

Dynamite! That is absolute perfection on the nose: wax, oak, honey, preserved lemon, ginger. Full, rich and lengthy. A shining star. Incredible layered persistence. What a stunner!

Domainedechevalier.com

The Domaine de Chevalier located in Léognan, the Capital town of the Graves Region has a long history. It appears on the famous map of Pierre de Belleyme in 1783.
In 1983 the estate was purchased by the Bernard Family, N° 1 in France on the Spirits market and a major negociant of premium Bordeaux wines.
It has been run ever since by Olivier Bernard who perpetuates that spirit of balance and the constant drive for perfection which have been the hallmark of this outstanding wine.
The red Domaine de Chevalier, the flagship of the PessacLéognan appellation belongs to the elite of the great classified growths of Bordeaux. The white Domaine de Chevalier is recognized as one of the world’s finest dry wines.

Pretty gold pale yellow tint, crystalline. Bright nose of various and exotic white fruits mixed with citrus and white flowers. Vineyard peach, nectarine, pear, apricot, mango, lychee,
citrus, acacia flower, hawthorn and honeysuckle.
Burgundian palate: Ample palate, rich, tasty, gourmet, very refined and well held by an energetic liveliness. Long finish with a great fruity finesse.

HARVEST : Hand-picked, into small crates.
Grapes are picked in 3 to 5 waves for optimum ripeness.
Traditional cold settling in barrels.
VINIFICATION : Fermentation in barrels.
Age in barrels for 18 months (35% new oak) with bâtonnage (stirring the lees with a stick)