2022 Château Cheval Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 99.5 points

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  3/2/2024 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 100 Points

  In recent weeks, I have had the chance to re-taste a good number of Bordeaux 2022 samples to see their evolution almost a year after the primeur week. I put you below and in alphabetical order, those that I imagine for the moment, worthy of the highest grade! It must be understood that I have not tasted all the wines, far from it, and that some others are going through more difficult evolutionary phases for the moment and therefore impossible to rate while remaining honest. Only the notes after bottling will be truly conclusive. Thank you for understanding this.
  
  Cheval Blanc, Lafleur, Las Cases, Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Margaux, Petrus, Tertre-Roteboeuf

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  6/27/2023 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 100 Points

  Saint-Emilion re-tasted yesterday
  
  N° 1 Cheval Blanc
  N° 2 Tertre Roteboeuf
  N° 3 Canon
  N° 4 La Gaffeliere
  
  And for the quality/price: Laroque

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  5/8/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points

  Garnet with purple accents in the color. The wine offers blackberries, black cherries, violets, chocolate, saffron, smoke, licorice, and orange rind nuances in the perfume. The palate is even more expressive. Regardless of what you have heard or expect, this is a gentle Cheval Blanc. The wine starts off slowly, and builds on the palate in intensity, slowly, but steadily. The wine manages to be as refined as it is concentrated, remaining perfectly balanced. The experience is seamless. The purity in the fruit is striking. The finish sees the 60 second mark and without a care in the world, keeps on going leaving you with layers of silky, sexy, sensuous fruits that linger long after the wine has left the glass. The wine is made from 53% Merlot, 46% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. 13.9% ABV, 3.8 pH. The harvest took place August 29 - September 6 for the Merlot. The Cabernet Franc September 12 - September 20. Yields were only 27 hectoliters per hectare. Please note that no second wine was produced in 2022. Make no mistake, this is one of the great vintages of Cheval Blanc, and that is really saying something. Drink from 2027-2065. 98-100 Pts.

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  5/3/2023 - watcheslover wrote: 98 Points

  98-99
  
  The vintage of the century!!!! Yes I know we have already told you this several times but this time it is the real truthful truth! Who are we kidding again? It was very hot but it was very cold, it was very dry but it rained a lot, the grapes are very ripe but with acidity...
  And Darwin said that man and mammoth sperm were adapting to climate change, why not grapes? Primeur wines are all more beautiful than each other, it's true! But that is not enough to make an exceptional vintage. One dimension is missing, the lifespan of the wine. And frankly, let's be honest, who can foresee today, that such a climatically contrasting vintage will not be syrup or vinegar in 20 or 30 years when the 2016, 2018,19,20 will begin their peak?

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  5/1/2023 - vvWine.ch wrote: 100 Points

  100 vvPunkte / (27 Hektoliter pro Hektar geerntet. Kein Zweitwein wurde produziert, 53% Merlot, 46% Cabernet Franc, 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. 13.9% Alkohol) Die Nase ist expressiv und still zugleich, was für ein Tiefgang, das ist pure Noblesse, dunkle Frucht, eine Floralität, die ich selten in einem Cheval Blanc gefunden habe, Süssholz, Ingwer, Kräuter, eine Droge. Im Gaumen die pure Eleganz, druckvoll, vollmundig, und mit seidenweichen Tanninen ausgestattet, der Wein hat eine perfekte Harmonie, zeigt Rasse, Frische und gleichzeitig Opulenz, was für eine Präzision, was für eine Länge, hier ist alles an seinem Platz. Wenn das nicht einer der grössten Cheval Blanc ever wird, verstehe ich die Welt nicht mehr. Big, big Wine! (Verkostet "En Primeur" im April 2023 auf Château Cheval Blanc) #primeurs22 www.vvWine.ch

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