Community Tasting Notes 47

• Marc C wrote: flawed

  March 24, 2024 - Highly oxidized unfortunately !

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• johnh1001 wrote: 93 points

  March 1, 2024 - From half bottle at La Tour Argent. Useful but quite closed for the first hour. Over the next two hours this opened slightly, but was still not nearly as expressive as I recalled the bottle 10 years ago. I overpaid for this experience tonight, but it was good to revisit. I suppose.

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• Benoit Hardy wrote: flawed

  July 13, 2023 - Vandermeulen bottling. Flat wine, of little interest unless you are a blissful gerontophile.

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• Cailles wrote: 99 points

  April 22, 2023 - A Fourcaud Laussac bottling. This was an immense bottle of wine. Highly complex, ever evolving, a still intriguing sweetness to balance all the tertiary aromas, lots of life and tension and a perfect harmony. This was Bordeaux at its best and classically shaped despite the warmer year. I’ve had this vintage before (Chateau bottling) and while very good (95pts), this was lightyears ahead in terms of layerdness and precision. This was the consensus WOTN although my vote goes to the Vandermeulen Chambertin 1947 (99pts) due to the slightly better nose. On the palate, however, this was clear perfection. This is 98/99pts.
  
  TN: Impressive, dense bouquet displaying layers of dark fruit, animalic, truffles, tobacco and minerality. Very intriguing and complete but the palate is, what makes this wine so outstanding: Lots of concentration. Ever changing, unbelievably complex aroma profile of riper dark berries, fresh red berries, dark red berries, loads of tobacco and truffle, layers of mushroom, earthy and minerality notes, some smoke and bbq notes and with time hints minty notes and herbs and here and there a tiny waft of brett. All the earthiness and tertiary notes are so well balanced by an intriguing, pure fruit sweetness helped with hints of honey. Lots of tension and an intact tannic structure without any hard edges, beautifully integrated, fresh and harmonious, light and airy but with good concentration from start to the long finish.

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• G_H wrote: 100 points

  April 2, 2023 - A negociant bottling lunch: From an impeccably stored Fourcaud Laussac bottling. Fourcaud Laussac were a Bordeaux based negociant and at the time the owners (or at least related to the owners) of Cheval Blanc. It is incredible how this wine can appear so young, yet have the complexity of a fully mature wine. Red berries, some floral notes, dense, fresh but still opulent. A stunner!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1949
• Type Red
• Producer Château Cheval Blanc
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru

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• Pending Delivery 3 (1%)
• In Cellars 193 (67%)
• Consumed 90 (31%)

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