Eddie Wolowski, JJ Buckley, March 2013

65% cabernet sauvignon, 30% merlot, and 5% petit verdot. A vibrant magenta rim with a deep, dark core. Fragrant florals are countered with spice, leading onto a palate of lush blueberry, red fruit, BBQ spice and crushed flowers. Concentrated, but with great purity and medium weight, this shows class and finesse. With a hint of minerals and a touch of toast, its great cashmere-like texture waltzes across the palate, finishing long and lingering. This is already integrated with impeccable balance. While approachable to taste( more like to die for), this is a very serious wine that will age and evolve well over the next two to three decades. The epitome of a great marriage between power and finesse. Very fine.

96 points,

James Suckling, jamessuckling.com, February 2013

Dark fruits such as raspberries and blueberries with subtle perfume on the nose. Full body, with super well-integrated tannins and a fresh and clean finish. Racy young wine. Shows classy structure and richness. Try in 2018.

Jancis Robinson, November 2012

Expressive and bright cedary fruit with such a touch of spice. Deliciously juicy even with all that tannin framework. 18/20 (JH)

93 -95 points,

Jeff Leve, TheWineCellarInsider.com, April 2011

From an assemblage of 63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc, the wine shows a deep ruby color. With little effort, complex aromas of smoke, truffle, cassis, black cherry, earth and oak scents are easy to find. The wine is rich, concentrated and offers dark, earthy, black fruit that ends with a long, pure, blackberry and cassis filled finish.

93 -95 points,

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, April 2011

Tasted three times, the Domaine de Chevalier has great precision on the nose with pure dark blackberry, dark plum, black olive compote and crushed flowers. The palate is just superb, mainly because of the crispness and tension in the tannic structure, framing a very precise, very focused Domaine de Chevalier that should age beautifully. It is almost understated but with great mineralité on the finish and superb persistency. Watch it blossom in bottle.

95 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, March 2013

This is one of my all-time favorite wines from Domaine de Chevalier, a silky, rather classic Pessac-Leognan with notes of scorched earth, tobacco leaf and black and red currants, but no hard edges. Fragrant, complex aromatics are followed by a savory, expansively flavored wine made from a final blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot. The wine hit 13.5% natural alcohol, which must certainly be among the highest they have ever achieved, even eclipsing the 2009. An opulent, precocious style of wine that seems much more developed, complex and delicious than I thought from barrel, this beauty can be drunk in 5-6 years or cellared for 20 or more. --Robert Parker

95 points,

Wine Enthusiast, May 2013

Firm and closed, this is a wine with so much power and concentration. It also has beautiful fruit, smooth and opulent, that merges into the complex tannins and brooding, dark structure. It will take many years for this wine to open up. -R.V.

92 -95 points,

Wine Spectator, March 2011

This is loaded, with layers of gorgeous plum sauce, linzer torte and blackberry fruit melding beautifully with charcoal, spice and anise. The long, dark finish has some power in reserve, but it's rounded and enticing. -J.M.

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