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L'Esprit de Chevalier 2025
En Primeur Wines – delivery in early 2028
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Description
Tasting notes and characteristics of L'Esprit de Chevalier red 2025
Tasting
Nose
The bouquet, generous and expressive, unfolds a vibrant fruitiness blending red and black fruits in all their freshness, with an intensity and precision that reflect an exceptional terroir.
Palate
The palate is both delicious and indulgent, carried by an exquisite roundness and beautifully tender tannins. The wine reveals an assertive personality, marked by spicy notes characteristic of the terroir, an invigorating freshness and an elegant saline tension that aptly balances the fruity sweetness of the whole.
An aromatic and silky red Second Wine from Pessac-Léognan
The estate
Owned by the Bernard family since 1983, the magnificent Domaine de Chevalier ranks among the finest Classified Growths of Bordeaux. The estate lies at the heart of the Pessac-Léognan appellation, nestled in a verdant setting south of Bordeaux. L'Esprit de Chevalier is the estate's second wine.
The vineyard
Domaine de Chevalier is a Pessac-Léognan wine produced from a rare 67-hectare vineyard, resting on a gravelly terroir with clay-gravel subsoils, 60 hectares of which are dedicated to red wine. Since 1986, the young vines have been devoted to ripening the berries that go into the blend of the estate's second wine, L'Esprit de Chevalier.
The vintage
The 2025 vintage enjoyed exceptional climatic conditions: a rainy winter ensuring ample water reserves, a mild spring favouring an early and even flowering, followed by a hot, dry summer allowing optimal ripening of the grapes. The harvest, spread out from late August to 26 September, was carried out in excellent conditions, with satisfying yields. The result is wines of great aromatic richness, combining freshness, complexity and elegance, in both white and red.
Winemaking and aging
After manual harvesting into small crates, during which meticulous sorting is carried out in the vineyard, the berries are sorted once again at the cellar before and after destemming. The grapes are vinified in stainless steel, concrete and wooden vats before being aged in barrels for 14 months. Alcohol content: 12.5% vol.
Blend
Cabernet Sauvignon (60%)
Merlot (35%)
Petit Verdot (5%).
