Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Monday, 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: I did not spend too much time with this wine (as I kept crawling back to the 1982 and 1990 served beforehand). This is very pleasant, fresh and soft with lots of pure red fruit at the core and a surprisingly lots of pine tree/fir on the nose. This wine is clearly on the leaner side but still a fun to drink and slightly edging out he 86/88/89.

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