2003 Domaine de Chevalier, Pessac-Léognan
SKU #1025279
92 points
James Suckling
I am loving the nose of white peaches, plums, and milk chocolate. So yummy. Full and juicy, with velvety tannins and a lovely freshness. Really charming, friendly, and enjoyable, but will still improve with age.
(5/2012)
90 points
Vinous
Full red. Plum, tobacco, leather, cedar and smoked meat on the nose. Fresh and aromatic in the mouth, with impressive retention of fruit for this superripe vintage. The flavors of red plum, tobacco, cocoa, mocha and spices really caress the palate. A spicy, firmly tannic but round midweight, with suave tannins and very good freshness for the year. (ST)
(5/2006)
90 points
Wine Spectator
Intense aromas of blackberry, cherry, tobacco and milk chocolate. Full-bodied, with ultrafine tannins and a beautiful finish of ripe fruit and light earth. Very balanced and refined. Delicious already. (JS)
(3/2006)
88-90 points
Wine Enthusiast
This is a very ripe, concentrated wine, with delicious sweet, black fruits. It is attractively balanced, showing tarry flavors, dark plums and a finishing touch of spice. (RV)
(6/2004)
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This evolved 2003 exhibits lots of smoky barbecue spices intermixed with notes of cedarwood, underbrush, damp forest, plums and figs. Medium-bodied, fully mature and relatively complex, it requires consumption over the next 4-5 years. (RP)
(8/2014)