Community Tasting Note
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Cailles wrote: 93 points
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: This showed quite nice with lots of quite ripe red fruit, a good terroir expression with crushed rocks, gravel and some barnyard notes. Quite nice aromatic profile with good precision but not overly deep or concentrated and one of the lesser Chevals in terms of softness and harmony. Anyway a good wine, especially for such a subpar vintage.4,598 views