Chateau Guiraud ‘G’ Bordeaux Blanc 2022

Oliver Bernard is hell-bent on creating the best white wine the world has ever seen – no matter how he has to go about doing it. It’s been a decades-long uphill battle, but it’s been the pursuit of perfection that is responsible for the incredible gains that Chateau Guiraud & Domaine de Chevalier have seen.

Perhaps no estate produces better white Bordeaux than Domaine de Chevalier in Graves. Since 1983, Olivier has run the winemaking show at Domaine de Chevalier. But after nearly 35 years of doing the same thing, he also took on winemaking duties at the great Chateau Guiraud, the well-known Premier Cru Classé producer of the sweet white wine Sauternes.

Recently, Oliver has slowed just a touch and doesn’t want the dream to die. Admittedly, he can’t attend to his vineyards and responsibilities as well as he once could. So selflessly, to bolster his winery to new heights, he made an all-time gambit, poaching one of the world’s all-time great female winemakers, Sandrine Garbay away from Chateau d’Yquem to lead the winemaking duties at Guiraud in late 2021. Garbay had been at d’Yquem for over 27 years(!), overseeing some of the greatest vintages ever made.