Excellent bottle. Ready for business from the get go with a floral bomb of fresh strawberries and cherries. The tell tale cabernet franc / merlot combination gave away that it was CB as we drank it blind. Fantastic and welcome break from all the Burgs recently. It performed very well against a Roumier Vougeot.
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This bottle was unfortunately slightly oxidized. The fill and condition overall was excellent, but oxidation took away a good bit of the beauty that this can have.
Nose was oxidative, but offering plum, leather and herbal notes. Palate opened to deliver some plum, sasparilla, clove and sweet baked cherries. But the browning elements did not fully go away.
Enjoyable, but not a fully correct bottle. No score as a result of the oxidation.
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This was a perfect bottle. Singing. Mature bdx but still in good place with plenty of fruit jumping out. Mixture of ripe raspberry overlaid with herbs and tobacco. Maybe even Menthol flavored tobacco ! Medium bodied. Loved this wine. I have 4 more left …
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Siggy Turns "Fitty": The Big 5-0 Blowout! (Spoon & Stable, Mpls, MN): Very dark red color. Served from decanters poured at least an hour before. This was a special 5 liter bottle opened at Spoon & Stable by Siggy on the occasion of his 50th Bday party. This did need a little fleshing out to come out of it's long slumber in a giant format bottle. There's some reduction to start and volatility, that gives way over 15 minutes to show a high toned mix black and dark red fruits. The Kirsch, blackberry and Blackberry liqueur stand out on the nose, along with lots of tar, mineral spirits, smoke, cigar, blood and carved meats. The palate is full, but expressive and not heavy with layers of dark berries - strawberry and raspberry, cassis, blackberry liqueur, dark cherry, meat and dense minerality with cigar ash on a long rewarding finish.
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From a very large format btl. Thank you Siggy for sharing this gem & the opportunity to celebrate your 50th Bday at Spoon & Stable with you, Jenny & as many of our longtime local & natl wine buddies as you could squeeze in the room Friday night! A very fun & memorable evening! This '71 Cheval did not disappoint! Obviously a reflection of your good karma! Right out of the gate we were greeted with a boat load of cigar ash ala Churchill. Sips exuded a Burgundian elegance with blissfully mature, yet almost sweet red fruit, herbs, autumnal notes and resonant echoes of its long life in the big btl. What a soulful glass of wine!
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Light earth flavors with hints of red fruit and forest floor. Nose was a little little muted. Completely balanced and elegant with sweetness at it’s core. Beautiful wine.
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Very overpowering smell of geraniums that did not allow anything else to come through. Unfortunately thus quite one dimensional and not too pleasant to my personal palate.
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47CB and Friends (3030 Ocean, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): I like this vintage of Cheval Blanc for its filigree tannins and its remarkable complexity. It’s balanced on the head of a pin, as if just a touch more acidity or tannin would cause it to fall off the pin cliff. There’s some modestly ripe fruit in there for sure. Catch it now before it expires.
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1971 Bordeaux (3030 Ocean, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): Yet another gorgeous and stylish 1971 Bordeaux, from a vintage that reputedly favored the right bank. The tawny color looks like a very old wine but its vigor belies that impression. It’s delightfully spicy and tangy and demands attention. Multifaceted and elusive. What sound old Bordeaux is all about.
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I really enjoyed this wine - fully mature with truffle, smoke and spice, cedar and meat, and mint notes. Lovely aromatics although the palate is sweet without much definition. Just a classy wine in a mediocre vintage.
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Huge nose right out of the gate, immediately very Vosne-ish in its spice and red fruit profile. An ethereal wine, almost no weight left at this point but remarkably aromatic. With half an hour of air, spearmint, leather, and ganache emerge to create a light-footed but recognizably Cheval profile. I wonder what the cepage is here, because the cab franc seems quite prominent. The palate takes a little more time to flesh out but remains quite lithe nonetheless. Long, spice-driven finish. This needs to be drunk now unless out of large format or a very cold cellar. Base neck fill. 94-95
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Nose: Upon opening gorgeous notes of red fruit, caramelized cherries and vosne romanee spices. Bit of bell pepper and sweet earth as well. Palate: Grew in depth with decanting and by hour 3 or so this was layered and giving red cherries, plum, quince, spearmint, and warm baking spices. Bit of vegetable garden and tobacco round out the silky well integrated palate feel. Finish: quite spice driven, but nice aged red fruit and leather linger.
What a wine.
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Perfect condition. Drank in St Emilion. Bright now of violet and red fruit. Fresh and pure on the palate with excellent grip. Perfect place right now and believe it will hold.
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Light ruby. Lovely black tea (Pu'er) nose together with dry and fresh orange peel that you get in older Cheval Blanc. Medium weight, very Burundian in terms of mouth feel and sensation. Still has the power but such a delicate touch and stunning soil, plum, spice in the nose and palate. Really a wonderful bottle and probably the best I have had from my birth year.
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This was the vintage that Judgment of Paris was chosen. In a friend's 40th birthday party born in 71, these 71 were served: Chasse Spleen, Mouton Baronne Philippe, Pichon Lalande, Cos d'Estournel, Leoville Las Cases and Mouton Rothschild.
All the above wines were put to shame when Cheval Blanc 71 was served. Nose was eucalyptus, very minty and very tea leaves as well. Palate had two faces; left side it was very minty, soft and mellow. Right face was powerful and exotic tea leaves.
Check out my other tasting notes here: finewines.com.sg
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Color: medium deep garnet core ->diffuse, fully garnet rim. Bouquet of cedar, tobacco, iron, leather, a little barnyard and a touch of mint. Silky smooth texture on the palate. Beef blood, cigar box, plums, forest floor and some smoke. Lovely, balanced wine with a long, lingering finish, this is still drinking elegantly. I enjoyed this tremendously over the course of 10 years from an auction lot of 8 bottles I purchased in the mid-90's. While it has lost some of the intensity it had back then, it is still singing beautifully. Enjoy now or soon unless lucky enough to find in larger formats (this was a 750ml).
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Château Cheval Blanc vertical tasting dinner #2 (Vienna Cafe & Wine Bar): Did not seem like a wine from Saint-Emilion. A really nice, layered nose. More balanced and even than the 1970. Lacks the Brett of the 1970. Minty. Floral. Herbal. Great fruit. Loved this. Medium plus finish. Never lost any life even after a few hours. Based on this bottle, it appears that this wine should still drink well for awhile. Picked WOTN by 7 of the 8 in attendance.
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Cheval Blanc Vertical Tasting (Old Swiss House, Lucerne, Switzerland): Mature red. Nose showed Portwine notes and lots of wood. The wine is dominated by alcohol and dry tannins. One dimensional. Did not like it. Looking at other Cellartracker notes I expect that this was a bad bottle
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Fully mature, with a ruby and tea color in its hue, the wine is silky smooth, soft, elegant and medium bodied. Focused on its secondary earthy, truffle, floral, cherry pipe tobacco, strawberry and red berry essence, there is no reason to wait for further development.
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Surprisingly little evolved, this wine can probably still age and even uncoil a tad more since even though the palate is smooth and silky (very much Merlot-driven), the nose is still somewhat reticent and more Cabernet F. driven, with still some primary fruit notes and a metallic, dried blood tinge. Impressive energy for its age.
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Cheval Blanc tasting (30 different vintages) at the Rheingau Gourmet Festival 2014: rubin color; lemon, truffle, caraway seed and bilberry; medium/full body; first an angular but then over the next 30 minutes a change into a smooth texture.
Vintages 5th flight: 1964-1966-1967-1970-1971
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Started off quite lean and had that old wine smell. Put on a lot of weight in the glass though. Lots of tabaco and tomato leaf. Complex stuff, but it was also easy to drink. No long finish and this is a wine that should be drunk up pretty soon. Fun to try though.
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Okay, credit where it's due. This was pretty amazing. Still nearly perfectly colored all the way through and looks like a young wine. Aromatically nuanced with very sweet berry, cedar, charcoal briquette, pine and spiced tobacco integrated together in a lovely way. This wine has a fantastic and rare integration of flavor and texture as if the two are inseparable. Starts out with the rich, soft outer pulp of perfectly ripe black cherries and segues to the denser, harder inner core of black currants. Secondary characteristics linger around the edges providing complexity and framing. The finish is sublime and incredibly long. A touch of bitterness drops in at this point but is not much of a distraction. This is pretty glorious stuff and while it certainly must be mature I can't see this dropping off any time soon.
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Christmas WIMPS (Bordeaux Table) (The Ledbury, London.): Cloudy and some quite fine sediment. Slightly sweet, figgy, slightly lifted volatile nose. A nice combination of sweet and dry; evolved fruit and sediment. Lovely but this needs drinking. (*)***
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Surprisingly Good. Certainly not young but there was some pleasure in the age. More interesting than anything. I'll be the first to admit I like young wines, but this had some life in it. Kudos.
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From 5 liter bottle. Always great when a big bottle this old delivers. A touch of initial funk, but the quality (provenance-wise) was fuly intact. There was just a touch of metallic on the palate, but the fruit shone through and delivered. I liked it, others were more effusive in their praise. Happy 40th to Siggy!
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40th Birthday Bash (Heidi's, Minneapolis): What an experience -- my birth year wine and the first '71 Bordeaux I have tasted. A 5-liter bottle that I bought at auction. High shoulder fill. The cork and capsule were in decent shape when I picked up the bottle a few months prior, but in the course of driving to the restaurant on the day before our dinner, the cork slipped and nearly plunged into the bottle. This was a touch funky when first opened and decanted, but really woke up over the course of the evening. Lovely ruby/tea color, with considerable cloudiness. The palate is a beautiful, mellow, complex, still vigorous, yet fully realized Cheval at the peak of maturity. So many flavors -- cherries, minerals, spearmint, truffles, brown sugar -- dynamic and elegant, evoking wonderful memories of the 1921, 1955, 1962, and 1966 Cheval Blanc, which I had previously had the honor to share with friends who were present on this evening. While this lacks the fireworks and Zen-like sense of completeness of the best vintages of Cheval, it is a darn fine wine with more than a lot of life left.
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Siggy Turns Forty!!!: The main event -- Siggy's birth year wine. Poured from a 5L! Steve called it a little funky when first opened, but by the time I got a taste it was rocking. Murky rusty-red color. The nose was a haunting blend of red fruit, smoke and spice complimented by endearing notes of fresh mint. Awesome. The taste was more red fruit mixed with iron/mineral and a bit of brown sugar. Barely mid-weight and overall a bit frail but flavors were surprisingly expansive and the finish is very nice. I had relatively low expectations, and this exceeded them by a long way. Siggy has a second bottle, and I can only hope to be there when it gets opened (for the 50th?). A truly special wine.
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From a mag and in great shape. Took a few minutes for the nose to clean up in the glass but eventually the nose soared on this baby. A wonderfull tasting experience!
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Caudalie 7,5 Colour ; bricht-brick-red. Nose ; white/green pepper, wild strawberries, dry tabac, creosoot Mounth ; extremely balanced, round tannins, nice moeuilleux and good acidity
The best southern expression of Cabernet Franc i ever experienced. Very classy, velvety but with power. It's highly enjoyable now but could do some extra cellaring, it will not improve though.
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Perfect level, into neck. So beautiful. Lovely depth, spices, herbs, oak, meltingly soft, ripe acidity, creamy, the most beautiful cabernet franc, perfectly developed, complex, deep and light at the same time, the finest tannins, perfectly balanced, exquisite length. Cheval Blanc at its best.
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Misc Bordeaux 1990 tasting - Martin: Lovely nose with red currant, mint leaves and coffee. A little smoke and bonfire with diesel fuel. A little sweetness is coming through with some olives. A sweet but fresh black currant palate with a very fresh aftertaste. Very drinkable wine with lots of charm. An interesting and exciting wine with a very fine and delicate balance.
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Bordeaux 1990 - 20 years later (Martins office): Chestnut color. Mature perfumed nose with plum and prune juice, olives, pencil shavings, elephant cage, wet fur, basement and cedar wood. Wildly aromatic. Sweet and succulent plum and prune juice, but packing a seriously complex and mature midpalate and finish with notes of pipe tobacco, wet fur, truffles, basement and cedar wood. Lots of exciting personality and character, caught at its plateau of maturity. Very interesting wine.
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Tasted double-blind. Typical aged Bordeaux. Color is deep brick red with brown rims. The fruit is there but dominated by secondary characteristics. Some funky and earthy overtones, but the wine has held up well overall. Tannins are completely integrated.
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Cheval Blanc dinner at Masa's. This wine was okay. A little bitter, a little tannic. Definitely not my fave of the night. I think the group liked it better than I did.
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Red with a narrow brown rim. Raisins and prunes on the nose. Very robust and strong in the mouth. The wine resided in a hugely structured framework and possessed an impressive skeleton that connected all the elements. This wine seemed completely resolved and was drinking to perfection. There was so much dense, ripe fruit and a balanced, long and seductive finish. A GREAT wine!
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With MPL at Singer & Foy survey of 1970s Clarets. Brownish cast to this wine. Nose is very vegetal. Yuck. Better in the mouth--silky and elegant. Flavor just OK though. Gravelly. Different, unique wine.
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4/2/2024 - acyso wrote: flawed
"There's a lot of fish at Montrose Harbor" (Chicago, IL): Oxidized and corked!
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1/21/2024 - Aptosc6 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Burnt orange peel nose.
Cherry and plum fruit. Still fat with extract. Long, lingering finish. Very tasty.
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5/20/2022 - WKC Likes this wine: 95 Points
Excellent bottle. Ready for business from the get go with a floral bomb of fresh strawberries and cherries. The tell tale cabernet franc / merlot combination gave away that it was CB as we drank it blind. Fantastic and welcome break from all the Burgs recently. It performed very well against a Roumier Vougeot.
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5/8/2022 - RockinCabs wrote:
This bottle was unfortunately slightly oxidized. The fill and condition overall was excellent, but oxidation took away a good bit of the beauty that this can have.
Nose was oxidative, but offering plum, leather and herbal notes. Palate opened to deliver some plum, sasparilla, clove and sweet baked cherries. But the browning elements did not fully go away.
Enjoyable, but not a fully correct bottle. No score as a result of the oxidation.
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11/20/2021 - Ltrain1282 Likes this wine: 96 Points
This was a perfect bottle. Singing. Mature bdx but still in good place with plenty of fruit jumping out. Mixture of ripe raspberry overlaid with herbs and tobacco. Maybe even Menthol flavored tobacco ! Medium bodied. Loved this wine. I have 4 more left …
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11/5/2021 - rocknroller wrote: 94 Points
Siggy Turns "Fitty": The Big 5-0 Blowout! (Spoon & Stable, Mpls, MN): Very dark red color. Served from decanters poured at least an hour before. This was a special 5 liter bottle opened at Spoon & Stable by Siggy on the occasion of his 50th Bday party. This did need a little fleshing out to come out of it's long slumber in a giant format bottle. There's some reduction to start and volatility, that gives way over 15 minutes to show a high toned mix black and dark red fruits. The Kirsch, blackberry and Blackberry liqueur stand out on the nose, along with lots of tar, mineral spirits, smoke, cigar, blood and carved meats. The palate is full, but expressive and not heavy with layers of dark berries - strawberry and raspberry, cassis, blackberry liqueur, dark cherry, meat and dense minerality with cigar ash on a long rewarding finish.
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11/5/2021 - chablis28 wrote: 97 Points
From a very large format btl. Thank you Siggy for sharing this gem & the opportunity to celebrate your 50th Bday at Spoon & Stable with you, Jenny & as many of our longtime local & natl wine buddies as you could squeeze in the room Friday night! A very fun & memorable evening! This '71 Cheval did not disappoint! Obviously a reflection of your good karma! Right out of the gate we were greeted with a boat load of cigar ash ala Churchill. Sips exuded a Burgundian elegance with blissfully mature, yet almost sweet red fruit, herbs, autumnal notes and resonant echoes of its long life in the big btl. What a soulful glass of wine!
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7/4/2021 - Boone's Farm Likes this wine: 92 Points
Light earth flavors with hints of red fruit and forest floor. Nose was a little little muted. Completely balanced and elegant with sweetness at it’s core. Beautiful wine.
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6/19/2021 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 93 Points
From 6 liter. Not the freshest bottle, despite the format. Good mouthfeel.
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7/13/2019 - sdr wrote: flawed
Not corked but out of condition. Too thin, too sour.
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6/26/2019 - ShadowIII Likes this wine: 92 Points
Still with good fruit, currants, cassis, much more still going than the '69 consumed beside it, cedar, hints of caramel, nice finish
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6/1/2019 - G_H wrote: 84 Points
Cheval Blanc Vertical ‘Chez Elke’ (Hotel Hohenzollern, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler): Slender and light, pear notes, long but too light finish
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6/1/2019 - hartmarco wrote: 85 Points
Very overpowering smell of geraniums that did not allow anything else to come through. Unfortunately thus quite one dimensional and not too pleasant to my personal palate.
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2/16/2019 - sdr Likes this wine: 91 Points
47CB and Friends (3030 Ocean, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): I like this vintage of Cheval Blanc for its filigree tannins and its remarkable complexity. It’s balanced on the head of a pin, as if just a touch more acidity or tannin would cause it to fall off the pin cliff. There’s some modestly ripe fruit in there for sure. Catch it now before it expires.
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11/16/2018 - sdr Likes this wine: 93 Points
1971 Bordeaux (3030 Ocean, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): Yet another gorgeous and stylish 1971 Bordeaux, from a vintage that reputedly favored the right bank. The tawny color looks like a very old wine but its vigor belies that impression. It’s delightfully spicy and tangy and demands attention. Multifaceted and elusive. What sound old Bordeaux is all about.
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11/24/2017 - barrytaylor Likes this wine: 92 Points
still drinking well. med color. decanted 1 hr. mature. not lot of fruit left.
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10/18/2017 - JulianSkeels wrote: 93 Points
I really enjoyed this wine - fully mature with truffle, smoke and spice, cedar and meat, and mint notes. Lovely aromatics although the palate is sweet without much definition. Just a classy wine in a mediocre vintage.
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9/22/2017 - RayOB wrote: 93 Points
Surprising good for the vintage. Nose of leather, green peppers, spice and red fruit.
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7/2/2017 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points
Huge nose right out of the gate, immediately very Vosne-ish in its spice and red fruit profile. An ethereal wine, almost no weight left at this point but remarkably aromatic. With half an hour of air, spearmint, leather, and ganache emerge to create a light-footed but recognizably Cheval profile. I wonder what the cepage is here, because the cab franc seems quite prominent. The palate takes a little more time to flesh out but remains quite lithe nonetheless. Long, spice-driven finish. This needs to be drunk now unless out of large format or a very cold cellar. Base neck fill. 94-95
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6/30/2017 - RockinCabs Likes this wine: 95 Points
Nose: Upon opening gorgeous notes of red fruit, caramelized cherries and vosne romanee spices. Bit of bell pepper and sweet earth as well. Palate: Grew in depth with decanting and by hour 3 or so this was layered and giving red cherries, plum, quince, spearmint, and warm baking spices. Bit of vegetable garden and tobacco round out the silky well integrated palate feel. Finish: quite spice driven, but nice aged red fruit and leather linger.
What a wine.
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6/23/2017 - johnh1001 wrote: 95 Points
Perfect condition. Drank in St Emilion. Bright now of violet and red fruit. Fresh and pure on the palate with excellent grip. Perfect place right now and believe it will hold.
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4/1/2017 - dchain Likes this wine: 94 Points
Light ruby. Lovely black tea (Pu'er) nose together with dry and fresh orange peel that you get in older Cheval Blanc. Medium weight, very Burundian in terms of mouth feel and sensation. Still has the power but such a delicate touch and stunning soil, plum, spice in the nose and palate. Really a wonderful bottle and probably the best I have had from my birth year.
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2/28/2017 - boknan Likes this wine: 96 Points
CHAMPION OF '71
This was the vintage that Judgment of Paris was chosen. In a friend's 40th birthday party born in 71, these 71 were served: Chasse Spleen, Mouton Baronne Philippe, Pichon Lalande, Cos d'Estournel, Leoville Las Cases and Mouton Rothschild.
All the above wines were put to shame when Cheval Blanc 71 was served. Nose was eucalyptus, very minty and very tea leaves as well. Palate had two faces; left side it was very minty, soft and mellow. Right face was powerful and exotic tea leaves.
Check out my other tasting notes here:
finewines.com.sg
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7/13/2016 - BVal Likes this wine: 94 Points
Birthday and time for a cellar treasure . . . .
Color: medium deep garnet core ->diffuse, fully garnet rim. Bouquet of cedar, tobacco, iron, leather, a little barnyard and a touch of mint. Silky smooth texture on the palate. Beef blood, cigar box, plums, forest floor and some smoke. Lovely, balanced wine with a long, lingering finish, this is still drinking elegantly. I enjoyed this tremendously over the course of 10 years from an auction lot of 8 bottles I purchased in the mid-90's. While it has lost some of the intensity it had back then, it is still singing beautifully. Enjoy now or soon unless lucky enough to find in larger formats (this was a 750ml).
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2/26/2016 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 97 Points
Château Cheval Blanc vertical tasting dinner #2 (Vienna Cafe & Wine Bar): Did not seem like a wine from Saint-Emilion. A really nice, layered nose. More balanced and even than the 1970. Lacks the Brett of the 1970. Minty. Floral. Herbal. Great fruit. Loved this. Medium plus finish. Never lost any life even after a few hours. Based on this bottle, it appears that this wine should still drink well for awhile. Picked WOTN by 7 of the 8 in attendance.
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12/20/2015 - Wine_lvr wrote: 88 Points
Cheval Blanc Vertical Tasting (Old Swiss House, Lucerne, Switzerland): Mature red. Nose showed Portwine notes and lots of wood. The wine is dominated by alcohol and dry tannins. One dimensional. Did not like it. Looking at other Cellartracker notes I expect that this was a bad bottle
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7/4/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 91 Points
Fully mature, with a ruby and tea color in its hue, the wine is silky smooth, soft, elegant and medium bodied. Focused on its secondary earthy, truffle, floral, cherry pipe tobacco, strawberry and red berry essence, there is no reason to wait for further development.
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4/1/2015 - thomasito2001 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Surprisingly little evolved, this wine can probably still age and even uncoil a tad more since even though the palate is smooth and silky (very much Merlot-driven), the nose is still somewhat reticent and more Cabernet F. driven, with still some primary fruit notes and a metallic, dried blood tinge. Impressive energy for its age.
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12/14/2014 - Lord Rayas wrote: 97 Points
MNSC - Alex (Chiu Tang): opened for an hour before serving. stunning. sweet, plummy, a touch of mint. gorgeous wine.
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3/8/2014 - Fatty Cat wrote: 94 Points
Cheval Blanc tasting (30 different vintages) at the Rheingau Gourmet Festival 2014: rubin color; lemon, truffle, caraway seed and bilberry; medium/full body; first an angular but then over the next 30 minutes a change into a smooth texture.
Vintages 5th flight: 1964-1966-1967-1970-1971
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12/25/2013 - bill00 wrote: 91 Points
Fully mature. Nice aromatic complexity - lots of mint and herbs. Light weight on the palate. Enjoyable but short of noteworthy.
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11/29/2013 - Lord Rayas wrote: 95 Points
Uncle 7 long lunch (Seventh Son): surprises me every time. beautiful nose with a sweet plummy finish.
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7/1/2013 - fourdan wrote: 90 Points
Nice nose, minty, sweety, palate slightly behind, still a great bottle
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9/7/2012 - -E- wrote: 91 Points
Østkantsmaking: Klar, dyp rød, så vidt oransje toner i kant. Søtlig nese med noe syrlige toner. Toner av søtlige røde bær. Bløt og myk frukt, noe smal med sursøt utgang. Fin vin, men noe kort.
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9/7/2012 - LWI wrote: 92 Points
Seven Decades of Right Bank Wines (Trondheim, Norway (my house)): Spices and forest floor, tight; beef juice and fresh meat, very good length, flinty, dry, very good intensity.
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7/12/2012 - mychurch wrote: 85 Points
Started off quite lean and had that old wine smell. Put on a lot of weight in the glass though. Lots of tabaco and tomato leaf. Complex stuff, but it was also easy to drink. No long finish and this is a wine that should be drunk up pretty soon. Fun to try though.
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1/3/2012 - jimbomatic wrote: 97 Points
Okay, credit where it's due. This was pretty amazing. Still nearly perfectly colored all the way through and looks like a young wine. Aromatically nuanced with very sweet berry, cedar, charcoal briquette, pine and spiced tobacco integrated together in a lovely way. This wine has a fantastic and rare integration of flavor and texture as if the two are inseparable. Starts out with the rich, soft outer pulp of perfectly ripe black cherries and segues to the denser, harder inner core of black currants. Secondary characteristics linger around the edges providing complexity and framing. The finish is sublime and incredibly long. A touch of bitterness drops in at this point but is not much of a distraction. This is pretty glorious stuff and while it certainly must be mature I can't see this dropping off any time soon.
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12/13/2011 - SimonG wrote:
Christmas WIMPS (Bordeaux Table) (The Ledbury, London.): Cloudy and some quite fine sediment. Slightly sweet, figgy, slightly lifted volatile nose. A nice combination of sweet and dry; evolved fruit and sediment. Lovely but this needs drinking. (*)***
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12/9/2011 - bonedocnine wrote: 90 Points
Surprisingly Good. Certainly not young but there was some pleasure in the age. More interesting than anything. I'll be the first to admit I like young wines, but this had some life in it. Kudos.
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11/6/2011 - BradE wrote:
From 5 liter bottle. Always great when a big bottle this old delivers. A touch of initial funk, but the quality (provenance-wise) was fuly intact. There was just a touch of metallic on the palate, but the fruit shone through and delivered. I liked it, others were more
effusive in their praise. Happy 40th to Siggy!
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11/5/2011 - Siggy wrote: 95 Points
40th Birthday Bash (Heidi's, Minneapolis): What an experience -- my birth year wine and the first '71 Bordeaux I have tasted. A 5-liter bottle that I bought at auction. High shoulder fill. The cork and capsule were in decent shape when I picked up the bottle a few months prior, but in the course of driving to the restaurant on the day before our dinner, the cork slipped and nearly plunged into the bottle. This was a touch funky when first opened and decanted, but really woke up over the course of the evening. Lovely ruby/tea color, with considerable cloudiness. The palate is a beautiful, mellow, complex, still vigorous, yet fully realized Cheval at the peak of maturity. So many flavors -- cherries, minerals, spearmint, truffles, brown sugar -- dynamic and elegant, evoking wonderful memories of the 1921, 1955, 1962, and 1966 Cheval Blanc, which I had previously had the honor to share with friends who were present on this evening. While this lacks the fireworks and Zen-like sense of completeness of the best vintages of Cheval, it is a darn fine wine with more than a lot of life left.
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11/5/2011 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 96 Points
Siggy Turns Forty!!!: The main event -- Siggy's birth year wine. Poured from a 5L! Steve called it a little funky when first opened, but by the time I got a taste it was rocking. Murky rusty-red color. The nose was a haunting blend of red fruit, smoke and spice complimented by endearing notes of fresh mint. Awesome. The taste was more red fruit mixed with iron/mineral and a bit of brown sugar. Barely mid-weight and overall a bit frail but flavors were surprisingly expansive and the finish is very nice. I had relatively low expectations, and this exceeded them by a long way. Siggy has a second bottle, and I can only hope to be there when it gets opened (for the 50th?). A truly special wine.
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11/5/2011 - chablis28 wrote: 96 Points
From a mag and in great shape. Took a few minutes for the nose to clean up in the glass but eventually the nose soared on this baby. A wonderfull tasting experience!
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2/17/2011 - Rupert wrote:
Neal Martin's 40th - La Paulée de KFC (The Ledbury, London): Soft, youthful, seamless, berried, genttle and rather lovely
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9/26/2010 - DemeesterWim wrote: 92 Points
Caudalie 7,5
Colour ; bricht-brick-red.
Nose ; white/green pepper, wild strawberries, dry tabac, creosoot
Mounth ; extremely balanced, round tannins, nice moeuilleux and good acidity
The best southern expression of Cabernet Franc i ever experienced. Very classy, velvety but with power. It's highly enjoyable now but could do some extra cellaring, it will not improve though.
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9/25/2010 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 97 Points
Perfect level, into neck. So beautiful. Lovely depth, spices, herbs, oak, meltingly soft, ripe acidity, creamy, the most beautiful cabernet franc, perfectly developed, complex, deep and light at the same time, the finest tannins, perfectly balanced, exquisite length. Cheval Blanc at its best.
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9/12/2010 - Peech wrote: 92 Points
smoky, minty, a little salty - almost like soy sauce, and a little sweet, with gamey, grilled meats.
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6/25/2010 - canan wrote: 93 Points
Misc Bordeaux 1990 tasting - Martin: Lovely nose with red currant, mint leaves and coffee. A little smoke and bonfire with diesel fuel. A little sweetness is coming through with some olives.
A sweet but fresh black currant palate with a very fresh aftertaste. Very drinkable wine with lots of charm.
An interesting and exciting wine with a very fine and delicate balance.
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6/25/2010 - Terkel wrote: 95 Points
Bordeaux 1990 - 20 years later (Martins office): Chestnut color. Mature perfumed nose with plum and prune juice, olives, pencil shavings, elephant cage, wet fur, basement and cedar wood. Wildly aromatic. Sweet and succulent plum and prune juice, but packing a seriously complex and mature midpalate and finish with notes of pipe tobacco, wet fur, truffles, basement and cedar wood. Lots of exciting personality and character, caught at its plateau of maturity. Very interesting wine.
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11/13/2008 - winecowboy wrote: 92 Points
Red with brown edges. Cedar wood and rainy forest on the nose. Sweet mature plums offering a soft delicate finish.
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3/1/2008 - mattiasjansson wrote: 91 Points
Tasted double-blind. Typical aged Bordeaux. Color is deep brick red with brown rims. The fruit is there but dominated by secondary characteristics. Some funky and earthy overtones, but the wine has held up well overall. Tannins are completely integrated.
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11/30/2007 - Serge Birbrair wrote:
The wine is tiring and better be drunk now unless the provenance is impeccable.
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2/3/2007 - G SQUARED wrote: 87 Points
Cheval Blanc dinner at Masa's. This wine was okay. A little bitter, a little tannic. Definitely not my fave of the night. I think the group liked it better than I did.
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10/3/2003 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 95 Points
Red with a narrow brown rim. Raisins and prunes on the nose. Very robust and strong in the mouth. The wine resided in a hugely structured framework and possessed an impressive skeleton that connected all the elements. This wine seemed completely resolved and was drinking to perfection. There was so much dense, ripe fruit and a balanced, long and seductive finish. A GREAT wine!
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1/22/1999 - mdefreitas wrote: 94 Points
Pre Auction Wine Tasting w/ lots of Burgs (NYC): Big nose of lead pencil and cedar. Fully mature and ready to go. Lots of tabacco and cedar. Nice finish. A great mature Bordeaux.
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9/22/1990 - MicklethePickle wrote: 79 Points
With MPL at Singer & Foy survey of 1970s Clarets. Brownish cast to this wine. Nose is very vegetal. Yuck. Better in the mouth--silky and elegant. Flavor just OK though. Gravelly. Different, unique wine.
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