2025 l'Esprit de Chevalier
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The 2025 L'Esprit de Chevalier is cohesive and well defined on the nose, very focused, with slightly earthy red fruit that gains brightness with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, well balanced, quite sapid in style, with a tang of black olive engaging on the finish. This is a fine Deuxième Vin that should represent great value.
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Based on 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot, with yields of 34 hectoliters per hectare, the 2025 L'Esprit De Chevalier offers ripe currants, black cherries, dried herbs, tobacco, and saddle leather. Checking in at 12.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.67, it’s medium-bodied, nicely balanced, and has ripe yet firmer tannins as well as a clean, lengthy finish. It’s an incredibly satisfying, complex Graves in the making.
A very fine red with aromas of berries, fresh herbs and tomato leaves. Medium-bodied with bright acidity and a fine tannin quality. Some chocolate. Only 12.5% alcohol.
The 2025 L'Esprit de Chevalier, a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, reveals a notably expressive bouquet for the estate, with aromas of cassis, raspberry, spice and flowers. Medium- to full-bodied, juicy and round, it shows a touch of firmness, with extraction that is somewhat marked at this stage. The finish is structured but not drying, preserving balance.
About the producer
Since buying the property in 1983, the Bernard family has cemented Domaine de Chevalier’s reputation as one of the Graves’s finest red and white wine producers, known for their sophisticated and elegant wines.