Tasting Notes
Vinous 88
The 1982 Domaine de Chevalier comes across candied on the nose with inkwell scents infusing the red fruit, intense but not complex. A touch of fresh tobacco emerges with time. The palate has a pastille-like entry, with desiccated orange peel, kirsch, Morello cherries and none of the herbaceousness it apparently showed in its youth. Doubtless, this wine, made a year before Olivier Bernard took the helm, could have been better. But it’s no abject failure. Tasted at 67 Pall Mall at Chelsea Vintners’ The Complete Bordeaux Vintage Guide dinner.
Anticipated maturity: 2023-2033
