1993 Château Cheval Blanc
Community Tasting Note
Cailles wrote:
Monday, December 16, 2019 - 30 Vintages of Cheval Blanc: All tasted blind. 1982 to 2015 (with 1949 in the mix). The wines are fragrant, perfumed, seductive and always soft and without weight. Best performing vintages: the rather hot/ripe vintages 2015, 2009 and 1982 (all complex, seductive, complete and with elevated concentration). Next best: the promising and pure 2010, the still sexy 1990 and the immortal 1949. Notable outperformer: 2011 with many other good off-vintages. Notable underperformer: 2005, 2000, 1998 which all showed rather muted and not yet ready.
TN: Another surprise. This seemed very young and very classic, without the burnt sugar notes of hotter years but very much driven by purity of fruit (fresh red fruit) and lots of terroir expression with wet earth and crushed rocks. Quite dense and powerful, this seemed to be very young. There is not much complexity or great length but it’s still a pleasant wine. I guess this will further improve with some age.
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