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....
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.
February 1, 2024 - Needed an hour. Delicious.
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!
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.
December 1, 2023 - Robinson wine dinner at mad cap Consistent notes from 5 years ago. Very special wine.
September 22, 2023 - Still fabulous but starting to show its age
August 12, 2023 - This really performed tonight. Color still pretty deep albeit clearly aged. Nose is so good, and the cab franc there really singing. Long palate, loads of red cranberry and raspberry, green bell pepper, some cedar, and some subtle, darker slatey notes on the finish.
April 22, 2023 - "It's the hardest working liver in the galaxy Morty!"; 4/21/2023-4/22/2023 (Indianapolis): I'd enjoyed this wine once before as part of a big dinner with 20+ wines at a big table. It was amazing then, but to sit and explore a bottle of this over a few hours with dinner and a good friend is a special treat. Thanks Adrian. The perfumed descriptor is absolutely spot on here - it's one of those wines I could sit and just breathe in for a while, with dark fruit, leather, cedar wood, and lightly greener forestal notes coming together into an incredible scent. It's at a plateau of maturity - the tannins seem fully integrated and very silky, and most of the structure seems to come from the acidity. Wonderful to follow over a few hours, though it feel a touch bitter and leaner in my last glass of the night (about 6 hours after it had been opened).
April 22, 2023 - Indianapolis VI; 4/21/2023-4/22/2023 (Indianapolis, IN): An absolutely stunning bottle, far surpassing the few bottles of this that I had last week at a big St. Emilion survey. Effusive nose that shows ripe fruit and mature pyrazines that express more like perfume than anything green. The fruit is ripe on the palate, and there are modest leathery notes on the palate, but the tannins are fully resolved and this is pure, classic Cheval Blanc silkiness. Light and elegant, but despite the lightness still very much intense in flavour profile. Archetypal Cheval Blanc at its best.