2011 Château Cheval Blanc
Community Tasting Note
PT insurgent wrote:
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - Famous bottle from a famous producer. Not a good vintage... But shouldn't all world class producers be making very very fine wine even in off years? Hmmm...
Really dominated by sweet oak notes, even after a decade in bottle, somewhat surprised by this, I thought that even in an off vintage the quality of the fruit and bottle aging would tame the oak. Notes of truffle, bell pepper, earth, plum, prune, raisin, fig. Really refreshing, long, persistant tannins. Obviously, a complex wine, but feels like an disjointed assemblage of the disparate parts, cab franc, merlot, oak, and not a coherant, seamless sum of the parts.
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