Domaine de la Chevalerie, Bourgueil, Galichets

Domaine de la Chevalerie · Loire › Bourgueil › France

Red · Cabernet Franc
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LWIN 1523733
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90 /100
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19
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Taster #2370 · Nov 14, 2020
91/100
Typically deep garnet color. Not a strong nose but nice baked fruit. Entry is tasty with a dry smoky finish. Quite a masculine bottle. Very good overall. Well made. Until 2028.
2010 vintage
Taster #9990 · May 24, 2016
89/100
Drinking very nicely right now.
2010 vintage
Taster #2282 · Sep 6, 2014
87/100
Lovely silky smooth and mildly perfumed. Bought at the winery a few days ago and can't wait to drink some of the many wines I bought there. Fantastic value.
2010 vintage
Taster #9990 · Mar 26, 2014
85/100
Opened yesterday. Very restrained. Tasted again today. Has opened up nicely with solid blackberry, currant, other black fruits. Hints of licorice, tar, spice, etc. which are quite nice. Keeping a few bottles to see if they improve.
2010 vintage
Taster #6493 · Feb 11, 2013
90/100
Coisa linda este vinho. Estava tão inesperadamente bom que senti uma pontinha de culpa por não compartilhar com ninguém. Nariz lindo e puro de framboesas na abertura, foi dando espaço para couro, sous bois e poivre vert. Na boca apresenta médio corpo e está super elegante, absolutamente no auge de sua trajetória.
1996 vintage
Taster #2436 · Nov 13, 2011
92/100
En accord avec la description de ggb
1996 vintage
Taster #1412 · Nov 4, 2011
94/100
Robe peu évolué. Au nez, un beau mélange d'arômes tertiares et de fruit, des notes animales, de sous-bois, de poivrons, de framboises et de fraises. En bouche, vraiment à point et équilibré avec des tannins soyeux. Très long.
1996 vintage
Taster #1144 · Dec 23, 2010
90/100
A bit herby with a fat buttery backend, due more to maturity than oak, I think. Drink up, this is now past its peak.
1996 vintage
Taster #7702 · Dec 18, 2010
90/100
Very good-value aged Loire red, plenty of excitement here. Great freshness on the palate, enlivening acidity, good dark fruit, hints of green pepper (I like this, it should not be considered a flaw) and still quite tannic. Hints of barnyard on a couple of the bottles, but not overpowering at all, and it blew off quickly both times. A good, lively wine.
1996 vintage
Taster #6692 · Jul 6, 2010
89/100
still has good cherry and raspberry notes; rounder simpler, and less vegetal than i recall, but some tobacco and herb notes; still has some freshness and remains quite enjoyable
1996 vintage
Taster #3177 · Feb 23, 2010
88/100
Not my favourite style of Loire caberet franc (rather too much tobacco) but nicely mature. Substantially better with food.
1996 vintage
Taster #5262 · Nov 26, 2009
89/100
Assuming from Galichets name, from a gravel terroir. Has the grass with lemon peel nose I've experienced in other gravel terroir Loire reds. Also plenty of tart red fruit, some tobacco and a hint of leather, but more herbaceous in a refined manner. Flavors are mellow, tannins resolved, though acidity is noticeable in a good way. Herbaceous yet fresh on the finish, with some intriguing spiciness (no heat). Elegant, pure and quite alive at 13 years! Only objection is the …
1996 vintage
Taster #6692 · Nov 22, 2009
88/100
straw and alfalfa nose; mixed currant, dark raspberry; earth, herbs, alfalfa; good typicity and still quite enjoyable;
1996 vintage
Taster #6883 · Aug 23, 2009
92/100
Opened and then recorked for about 2 hours. Showy nose, with herbal, green tobacco slightly outshowing raspberry. Lively, fresh and complex with different notes showing, including at one point hot pepper, minus the actual heat. Very good.
1996 vintage
Taster #3239 · Jul 15, 2009
92/100
If you open it now, decant it for at least 2-3 hours. It's a very smooth wine, with more complexity than you could tell just by smelling it right out of the bottle. A great, classic example of a properly aged Bourgueil.
1996 vintage
Taster #2709 · Jun 20, 2009
90/100
This one took quite a few sips to get a fix on. Nose of Ditto fluid, old leather, earth and touch of aniseed. Mouth of crushed dried rose petals, sawdust and basil. Medium length but incredibly smooth finish (no tannins left) of pencil shavings. Was still drinking well after two hours of decanting. The Ditto fluid was a bit overpowering at times but this was a thoroughly captivating wine.
1996 vintage
Taster #7646 · Apr 18, 2009
92/100
All the greenness you'd like complemented by pure fruit. Very polished, beautiful.
1996 vintage
Taster #8896 · Mar 7, 2009
Light color with brown at the edge. Piercingly pungent, lean, green nose. Light in the mouth with strong minerality and acidity. It retains just enough sweetness of fruit and an interesting element of black licorice on the lingering finish to avoid being too severe and astringent. I liked this but would not wait a moment to open any remaining bottles as there is nowhere to go but down from here.
1996 vintage
Taster #2223 · Feb 14, 2009
91/100
– popped and poured – – tasted non-blind – NOSE: smoke and lots of sweet tanned leather; some non-descript red fruits; as it opened-up in the glass, the bouquet started to smell more like a horse barn; the bouquet was moderately expressive. BODY: hazy; inky garnet color of great depth; medium bodied. TASTE: strong leather note is repeated on the palate, alongside primary raspberry; secondary hint of spice; embedded minerality brings a nice sense of earthiness to this wine; long …
1996 vintage
Taster #1144 · Jan 10, 2009
92/100
Wow, I didn't know Loire Reds aged this elegantly. Still young after 10 years. I want more.
1996 vintage