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1985 Château Cheval Blanc

Red Bordeaux Blend

  • France
  • Bordeaux
  • Libournais
  • St. Émilion Grand Cru
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Community Tasting Notes 196

  • Dionysos55 Likes this wine: 95 points

    March 28, 2024 - Décanté 1h30 avant consommation.Robe évoluée.Bouquet remarquable de complexité qui regorge d'arômes de réglisse,menthol,cuir,café,zeste d'orange,cèdre,sousèbois,feuilles mortes,cassis bref c'est absolument génial....Le palais est tout aussi phénoménal:c'est soyeux,juteux,merveilleux,hédoniste n'en jetez plus la coupe est pleine.La note va être maximale et là patatras....La finale est un peu courte en bouche pour un vin de ce calibre,ce qui naturellement déçoit un peu....Néanmoins cela reste une gigantesque cuvée....

  • glou.sf Likes this wine: 98 points

    March 9, 2024 - Incredible nose with dark fruits, mushrooms, cigar box, and bright berry notes. Medium acidity with notes of underwood, cherries, cassis, tobacco, and savory on the palate. The tannins are integrated but still provide good structure. Long and lingering finish. Wow, this is a complete and beautiful wine. Drinking absolutely perfectly right now.

    1 person found this helpful Comment
  • johnh1001 wrote: 94 points

    February 1, 2024 - Needed an hour. Delicious.

  • Raage Likes this wine: 94 points

    December 7, 2023 - (CDV)
    Très ligérien, en finesse et en fraîcheur, ce Bordeaux, étonnant de singularité nous a franchement bluffé.
    Peu habitué à Cheval Blanc, reconnu pour son cabernet franc atypique, j’ai été charmé par sa présence palpable : poivron, Epices, sous-bois, mousse de chêne… La table, quelqu’un a parlé de La Dioterie, et j’ai aussi fait le lien (1990!).
    En bouche, sa grande finesse de tanin et la sensation de fraîcheur m’éloignait encore plus de Saint-Émilion, mais peut-être l’âge du vin accentuait cette impression.
    Subjectivement, un vin de Bordeaux de cette classe, raffiné et frais, c’est Byzance!

  • Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 points

    December 7, 2023 - A private Cheval Blanc tasting (Bolomey Wine Imports, Amsterdam, NL): Tasted blind. Brought as a surprise gift by one of the participants. Opened on the evening before. Fully mature, tannins are mostly resolved, lovely freshness and energy, good fruit, orange peel, marvellous tertiary aromatic evolution, transparent and precise, has lost a lot of weight but not its harmony or precision, fills out with oxygen, good length. I guessed an older vintage.

    1 person found this helpful Comment
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  • By Neal Martin
    Cellar Journal – Bordeaux to Start… (Jul 2018), 7/18/2018 (link)

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
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    7/16/2015 (link)

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  • By John Gilman
    Sep/Oct 2014, Issue #53, 1985 Claret The Finest Bordeaux Vintage of the 1980s

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    9/11/2010 (link)

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The World of Fine Wine

  • June 2008, Issue #20 (link)

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Vintage Tastings

  • By John Kapon
    Bipin Cheval Weekend, 12/7/2007

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    8/13/2007 (link)

    (Ch Cheval Blanc St-Émilion Red) Subscribe to see review text.

  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    1/3/2003 (link)

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Vinous

  • By Stephen Tanzer
    July/August 2002, IWC Issue #103 (link)

    (Chateau Cheval Blanc Saint Emilion) Subscribe to see review text.

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    6/28/2002 (link)

    (Ch Cheval Blanc St-Émilion Red) Subscribe to see review text.

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  • By Richard Jennings
    1/28/2005 (link) 93 points

    (Château Cheval Blanc) Light spicy nose; medium-bodied, spice, plum palate with good acidity; long finish

Wine Definition

  • Vintage 1985
  • Type Red
  • Producer Château Cheval Blanc
  • Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
  • Designation n/a
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • SubRegion Libournais
  • Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru
  • UPC Codes 071570019136, 081753800062, 3490890013421

Community Holdings

  • Pending Delivery 35 (1%)
  • In Cellars 1,720 (62%)
  • Consumed 1,030 (37%)

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Beef tenderloin roast, Okse, Vilt

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