Chateau Cheval Blanc
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Chateau Cheval Blanc,
Ready, but will keep,
This is a truly great Cheval Blanc. Just a smidgen below the quality of the 2005 (yes, really) it is a monster of a wine, and utterly complete. Overflowing with dense fruit, huge tannins and balanced acidity it has all the tools to age majestically. The nose is all creamy, rich, intense black fruit while the harmonious palate boasts cool, incredibly concentrated, elegant cassis and plums with an astonishing pure, complex finish that we could still taste 10 minutes after leaving the chteau. Without a shadow of doubt, the wine of the vintage.
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
For laying down,
Cheval Blanc has a really pleasing velvety texture in 2015. It is a stylish wine as usual, with power, elegance and a lovely mouth-watering freshness. There is a seductive richness in 2015 along with concentrated raspberry, blackberry and plum fruit. Soft, beguiling and pure, it is a very pleasant glass of wine.
Elegant and silky. There is nice crunchy fruit and green pepper, with tobacco leaf on the finish. Power emerges on the mid-palate, but is quite well hidden behind the fruit and layers of spicy flavour.
Blend: 55% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Franc
Elegant and silky. There is nice crunchy fruit and green pepper, with tobacco leaf on the finish. Power emerges on the mid-palate, but is quite well hidden behind the fruit and layers of spicy flavour.
Blend: 55% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Franc
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
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Director Pierre Lurton has produced an extraordinary Cheval Blanc in 2005 with wonderful purity and class, emphasizing beauty over power. Like so many of the great 2005s this starts slowly and then snowballs into an avalanche of flavour, getting more and more complex and intense as it goes. With its floral, bitter chocolate and ripe black fruit nose this is immediately very different to other wines we have tasted. Crushed coffee beans enhance the sensational blackberry fruit amidst a palate of great poise, harmony and luxurious polish.
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
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Wow, such a pretty nose – more in keeping with a Grand Cru Burgundy! Floral hints, combined with mulberry, violet and raspberry. Effervescent, however surprisingly powerful, building up on the nose like a Bonnes Mares or Musigny. A fresh crunch on the palate that works perfectly with the velvety fruit and creamy spice from the oak. Lovely structure and bones to the palate that give this an added precision. Such a refined and pretty Cheval for short to mid-term drinking.
Hong Kong Fine Wine Team
Hong Kong Fine Wine Team
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
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With a massive concentration of bramble fruit and a high level of firm, ripe tannins adding structure, Cheval Blanc was one of the most masculine wines that we tasted on the Right Bank during the 2009 en primeur tastings. Dense, earthy with a dark olive, almost sweet ‘n’ sour twist, this was a big, complex wine with many layers of flavour rippling across the palate towards the toasty finish. Very impressive indeed, this was one of the best Merlot-dominant (60%) wines we tasted in 2009.
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
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Director Pierre Lurton has one of the best and hardest jobs in Bordeaux, managing two of the region's great estates, Cheval Blanc and d'Yquem. In 2006 he been successful once again producing what he rightly calls 'a cashmere' Cheval Blanc. It is an outstanding wine, with a stylish, velvety texture, power and elegance and a lovely mouthwatering freshness. It has more Merlot than usual giving it a seductive richness, along with concentrated raspberry, blackberry and plum fruit and supple tannins. Just as you think you have tasted everything, another wave of fruit sweeps in on the long finish.
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
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Seventy-five percent of the harvest was used to create the Grand Vin this year and it has such an attractive nose. Another Burgundy-esque wine, Cheval Blanc is wonderfully perfumed and delightfully floral. The palate has an impetus to it. Soft, beguiling, pure and mineral natural, it is simply delicious. There is elegance, but power emerges on the mid-palate, although it is well hidden. Approachable now, there is some crunch and velvety fruit. Refined and fine, it is a really good result this year.
55% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Franc
55% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Franc
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
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Twenty-five percent of the crop was used to create Le Petit Cheval in 2014 and the blend is classical for this wine. Tobacco leaf appears on the nose and there is a wonderful perfume to the fruit. Ripe, round and harmonious on the palate, there is a softness to this wine, but a long lingering finish is also in attendance.
52% Merlot, 48% Cabernet Franc
52% Merlot, 48% Cabernet Franc
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
Ready, but will keep,
"Among the young Chevals of the last 25 years, this is the most Port-like I have ever tasted. It represents the essence of this noble vineyard.....Opulent and full-bodied, with a diaphanous quality (each layer peels away to reveal even more nuances), low acidity, sweet tannin, and a 60 second finish, it is unquestionably as profound as the 1990 and 1982. It is the most compelling Cheval Blanc since the mythical 1947 and 1949, but patience is required. Potentially, this is a perfect wine."
Robert Parker - Bordeaux 4th Edition - Feb 2002
Robert Parker - Bordeaux 4th Edition - Feb 2002
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
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There is real freshness in the 2016 Cheval Blanc. Dark ruby, it has strong aromatics of red berries and blue fruit. The palate is fresh with creamy, well-integrated, ripe, silky tannins alongside a spicy, crunchy acidity. It dances across the tongue with a flicker of polished fruit, finishing with a suave, polished character and a classy richness.
Blend: Merlot 59.9%, Cabernet Franc 37.2%, Cabernet Sauvignon 3.3%
Blend: Merlot 59.9%, Cabernet Franc 37.2%, Cabernet Sauvignon 3.3%
Chateau Cheval Blanc,
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There has been some Cabernet Sauvignon incorporated in the grand vin since 2016, now ready after having been replanted on one of the more gravelly plots. It does add another dimension, a cooler spine around which Cabernet Franc's peony and lilac notes dance to Merlot's more bacchanalian tune. A brilliantly woven wine. Drink 2030-2060.
Blend: 54% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Franc, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon
Blend: 54% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Franc, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon
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Château Cheval Blanc, a 1er Grand Cru Classé (A) is unquestionably the leading estate in St. Emilion. It is located in the north-west of the St. Emilion appellation, bordering Pomerol.
Cheval Blanc's vineyards (Merlot 39%, Cabernet Franc 57%, Malbec 3%, Cabernet Sauvignon 1%) enjoy a variety of soils: gravel, clay and sand, all underpinned by an impermeable sedimentary rock (`crasse de fer'). Fermentation and maceration last 4 weeks in stainless steel vats, followed by 18 months' maturation in new oak barrels.
Cheval Blanc produces the most famous Cabernet Franc-based wine in the world and present régisseur Pierre Lurton is amongst the most talented winemakers working in Bordeaux today. Cheval Blanc requires a minimum 10 years of bottle age and the best vintages can last for 50 years or more.