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2009 Domaine de Chevalier Bordeaux Blanc
Bordeaux Blanc: 750ml
$99.99
points awarded:
JS 97-98 WA 95 WS 92Eddie Wolowski, JJ Buckley, January 2012
70% sauvignon blanc, 30% semillon. Aged for 18 months in oak, 30% new. Barrel fermented. Seductive nose. Grapefruit, pineapple, mineral, and toast flavors are countered with ample acidity, a great mouth feel, good complexity and great length. A big winner out of the gate, this was built to age, reaching a great drinking window in several years, and long lived over the next two decades. Very fine and highly recommended. Only 1,500 cases produced.
97 -98 points,
James Suckling, jamessuckling.com, December 2010
This is very dense and powerful, reminds me of the 2005 but it has more structure and acidity. It's a blockbuster with a huge finish, Grand Cru Burgundy style. Fresh and massive. Barrel sample.
95 points,
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, March 2012
This wine has closed down since I saw it prior to bottling. A blend of 80% Sauvignon Blanc and 20% Semillon from one of the great estates in Pessac-Leognan, the wine has notes of white currants, melon, and flint/crushed rock with a delicate hit of orange and lemon zest. Give it another 4-5 years of cellaring and drink it over the following three decades. 95+ points
92 points,
Wine Spectator, March 2012
Very fresh and bright, with a lovely racy edge from the start, showing mouthwatering quinine, white peach and Meyer lemon notes that all glide through the deftly toasty finish. Drink now through 2020. 2,000 cases made.

