2022 L'Esprit de Chevalier Blanc
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James Suckling
Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
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The 2022 L'Esprit de Chevalier Blanc reveals a pure, delicate bouquet of pear, peach, flowers, anise and spices. Medium to full-bodied, layered and satiny, it’s ample and concentrated, framed by delicate dry extracts and bright acids that segue into a long, fresh and delicate finish. This is a real success.
The 2022 L'Esprit De Chevalier Blanc is a beautifully elegant white offering juicy citrus and minty floral notes in a focused, fresh profile. Medium to full-bodied, it’s clean, balanced, and vibrant, with terrific purity and precision. It’s the second wine of the domaine yet tastes like a Grand Vin. Drink bottles over the coming decade.
The 2022 L'Esprit de Chevalier Blanc is a wine that showed well from barrel. Now in bottle, it has evolved nicely on the nose with citrus peel and dried white flower scents that become a little oilier as it opens in the glass. This has fine delineation. The palate is well balanced with a keen line of acidity. This is citrus-fresh with a sense of nascent energy. It's maybe just missing a little complexity on the finish when compared to the Grand Vin Blanc.
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.