Domaine Léandre-Chevalier: Tasting & Drinking
I have to confess that the wines presented by Dominique Léandre-Chevalier comprised the most idiosyncratic collection of bottles I have ever encountered in Bordeaux, Indeed, I think they were probably some of the wildest and wackiest wines I ever tasted from any domaine, whether in Bordeaux or beyond. I have tasted many unusual wines from unusual varieties, of course, but these wines were quite different; the nuances concerned technique – planting density, fermentation vessel and so on – rather than variety.
That such a curious mind existed in Bordeaux was a good thing. I’m not sure Dominique’s experiments were the same as those I would have conducted though; it would have been interesting, I think, to see the same yield per vine in the high-density experiment, leaving the planting density as the only variable. But in writing that, perhaps I am missing the point? This wasn’t a science laboratory after all, and perhaps we should be thankful that here we at least had something different, something to stimulate the mind and incite debate?
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