This was really tight to begin with and benefitted greatly from a 3+ hour decant. Then it began to show classic Cheval dirt with notes of blackberry liquor, truffles and smoked earth. Still youthful and possessing a lot of great material for the vintage, it nevertheless is a more structured version of this great terroir. There is a beautiful layered texture and perfect balance with a refined finish sporting notes of dark spices and dark chocolate. Very fine with upside. 94+
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Plush and wet. red fruit, bright with tones of chocolate and damp spice. Velvety texture but not a ton of depth. The merlot denominated but can franc adds some textured depth.
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Our anniversary dinner at Grand Hyatt Steakhouse. Crab cake and Porterhouse Wagyu. Cork was almost perfect. Decanted for 30 mins. Nose was subtle but gradually more vibrant. Smooth and balanced but after taste was a bit disappointing. It's my first Cheval Blanc so I didn't know what to expect. Overall ... we loved this wine and served well with the food .
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Lots of ripe dark fruits, some nice spices, some earthy, tobacco like notes too. Fruit driven style. This is big but everything feels in a good balance. An interesting and underestimated vintage. In a good spot, drink within the next decade. (IG)
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A private dinner (Restaurant Café Caron, Amsterdam, NL): Decanted for 90 minutes. Very tight and firm, so youthful, marvellous energy, (tonka bean) oak is only just starting to integrate, deep kirsch fruit with a touch of black currant, almost completely primary (even if there is a touch of lovage), expansive palate with great focus and precision, very early maturity, needs another 10 years and preferably 20. Score based on potential.
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Cheval Blanc plus supps (E & M's in the rocks, Sydney): Funky, farty, meaty, savoury, leathery, earthy, spicy, perhaps slight oxidation, with time and plentiful agitation red and black plums, polished oak, a little raspberry compote note. Medium plus intensity acidity, chalky tannic grip closes down the palate, ripe plummy fruit, that raspberry compote underpin, liquorice, a little herbaceous note. Balanced. Long.
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Smells of pepper and ripe fruit. Balanced and lovel to drink. Has a note to it that I don’t taste in many other Bordeaux. Almost reminds me of a Pinot characteristics.
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Dinner at Marcel's, DC. Closed upon opening but after a 30 minute decant it began to express excellent fruit, balance, elegant satiny mouth feel but lacked complexity and depth. I see the mixed reactions but believe my experience closely reflects winemakers51. While approachable now it should evolve over time. The question for me is this wine in it for the long haul.
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Drinking beautifully now, but certainly will hold. Decanted 2 hours. At first, closed in with mild, milk chocolate notes. Upon second glass, the complex, earthy/truffle and forest floor aromatics kicked in; along with Cabernet spice (vs tobacco) and some cassis. Some reviewers thought some new world ripeness and perhaps some truth. I thought it was more ripe Merlot influenced. Generous, dark cherry and black berry compote. Some tannins, which worked well with out steaks. The 2006 is excellent at this point and better than the disappointing 2004.
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“Best Bottle” tasting in Fitzgerald, Rotterdam. (By JvT @ Fitzgerald): In the bouquet creamy red and dark berries. On the palate Cab. Franc and some bell pepper, but also beautifully ripe fruits. A bit rustic and earthy. Beautiful acidity and tannin. Still youthful. If I had a bottle, I would probably wait at least another 5 years.
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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: To be honest, I haven’t had enough time to taste it properly. When the flight was revealed I still was sucked-in by the 2009 and 2010 served alongside. As the next flight was about to be served and as 2006 was not a particularly good vintage I took a quick sniff and sip, found it rather lean and uninspiring and went on.
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Chateau Cheval Blanc - 30 year vertical (1949-2015) tasted blind: This was my least favorite wine of the tasting. Of course it had a hard stance next to the stellar 2009/10 duo. The issue I had with this wine was its cooked fruit nose which was followed buy an alcoholic palate and slightly dry finish which. Felt somewhat disjointed. One of my least favorite wines of this vertical.
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May Meeting of Friendless Drinkers Club (Vancouver Club): Double decanted 4.5 before and put into decanter prior to drinking. Very aromatic. Floral, confectionary and bubble gum aromas. Red currants, dark berries and cherries, vanilla with a mineral, acidic finish. Soft tannins and velvety on the palate. Blend of 54% Merlot 45% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon
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More on the black cherry to mild cranberry fruit aromas. Some oak (vanilla/caramel) and hints of pencil lead. Decanted 2 hours; which was just right. Did not find excessive herbal, vegetal as one reviewer found. Color was medium to dark ruby with slight garnet hues. Flavors are super elegant, red fruits and not as concentrated as with riper vintages. Tannins are soft; but some slight green/hardness, which are indicative of the vintage. A lovely, drinkable Cheval Blanc, that I would enjoy now, but no rush to open.
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During a walkabout/tasting dinner, so only brief impressions. Lots of CabFranc notes here. Young, herbaceous, some dark fruit and flowers. Not bad but I wish for some riper fruit.
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2017 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/16/2017-10/25/2017 (New York City, NY): A deep red/garnet blend of 55% Merlot and 45% Cabernet Franc, the 2006 Cheval Blanc offers an intense bouquet of bramble fruits, cassis, lavender, bittersweet chocolate and minerals. Full-bodied, freshly acidic, seamlessly alcoholic and with substantial grippy tannins, it delivers flavors mirroring the nose, adding a slight green element on the lengthy back end. Despite being a success for the vintage, this does not possess the charm that Cheval Blanc typically exudes in better years. This will require more time in the cellar, but I doubt that it will ever become something monumental. Drink 2025-2040.
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The Grand Tour - day eleven (Bordeaux): Aromas of mint, blackcurrant, slightly peppery spice, and some cocoa powder, graphite and pencil shavings. Juicy and fleshy, lashings of primary fruit, breadth on the mid palate with chamois soft taninns, very long , beautifully balanced….wonderful
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nose -light raspberry, damp earth, mint. soft nose mouth - black cherry, tobacco, earth, strong mint emergent with time in the glass. purity and elegance are noted with minimal flashiness. good perhaps i was hoping for more fireworks. with time i can foresee additional development though i dont think any metamorphosis will occur. hold
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Served with lunch at Cheval Blanc. A lovely mellow, balanced wine that was a real pleasure to drink but did not blow me away. The fruit has mellowed and the oak is well integrated and it was an excellent accompaniment to the duck that was served. Medium / long finish.
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Vertical tasting of six recent vintages. There is a leafy forest floor aroma. Clearly the most developed of the wines on show. Lots of black fruit with tobacco and cedar. Complex and intriguing. Well balanced although the tannins are a little dry.
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Approaching maturity but not there yet; tannins still tight, but the fruit is full, it widens in the glass. 1st bottle seemed somewhat closed and muted, another bottle opened, much fresher and younger looking. #Angleterre
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Tight, needs time and air to develop. This is a structured, firm, strict, tannic style of Cheval Blanc, with a classic, brisk, masculine, red berry character. Others that prefer that style of wine will like it more than I did.
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Elegant, crisp but plenty of depth here. Very young but a potentially superb vintage for Cheval. Interesting that Pierre said he "prefers '06 to '05 but I always fall on the side of elegance and finesse." Glad I have this in the cellar and it will start drinking soon. Intimate dinner for 8 with Pierre Lurton in the rotunda on the roof at Nomad, NYC.
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Blueberries, spices, smoke on the nose. On the palate very tight and closed. Very powerful, but fairly ripe tannins. Grippy without much detectable fruit underneath those tannins. Time will tell where this one will go. 92-93(++?)
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Color cereza picota, ribete granatoso, capa alta y gruesa lágrima bien lenta y bien tintada. Nariz de muy buena intensidad con aromas de fruta madura muy intensos y agradables (fruta del bosque en compota con mucha frambuesa) que predominan sobre los finos y elegantes tostados de la barrica, notas lácteas bien cremosas y agradables (yogur de fruta del bosque), suaves y elegantes especiados (pimentón dulce), suaves notas avainilladas, un conjunto donde prima la elegancia con un notable equilibrio, cacao y chocolate con menta (After Eight), algo de monte bajo bien fresco, laurel y ligero fondo ahumado. Sutil entrada en boca con una suave astringencia, buen recorrido elegante con notable estructura, fina textura seductora, buena intensidad y unos taninos dulzones, muy buena acidez, elegante, finos especiados con unos tostados que están bien integrados, suave, buena amplitud, fino y muy buena persistencia. Final largo, postgusto de fruta madura y retronasal suavemente ahumado.
More information: http://www.elvi.net/2013/12/21/chateau-cheval-blanc-2006/
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What a major disappointment. Six hour decant yielded a great nose but a pedestrestrian wine. Very rough around the edges with a lot of independent notes that simply do not work together. This is very disjointed at this stage. Maybe it is closed or just not ready to drink, but this is not something that can be enjoyed at this stage. This is the only 2006 Bordeaux that has let me down.
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Frim, bright, fresh, steely, slightly austere style of Cheval Blanc. Better on the nose than the palate. There is good definition of fruit, and perhaps another 10-15 years will help soften the wine, but this is better for lovers of more classic styles and vintages of Bordeaux. The wine was produced from a blend of 55% Merlot and 45% Cabernet Franc.
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Académie des Cinquante Bordeaux visit; 9/26/2012-9/29/2012: Good colour, slightly maturing rim; initially still a bit closed on the nose, quite oaky (low toast), opens up to a fresh, Cabernet Franc dominated nose, peppery and with sweet raspberry fruit, lovely depth and minerality; richly tannic, medium weight, still very hard but the balance seems to be allright even if it does not have a lot of flesh, typical 2006-freshness; good but not exceptional length. A difficult wine. It is clearly very closed but I wonder.
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8/17/2023 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
This was really tight to begin with and benefitted greatly from a 3+ hour decant. Then it began to show classic Cheval dirt with notes of blackberry liquor, truffles and smoked earth. Still youthful and possessing a lot of great material for the vintage, it nevertheless is a more structured version of this great terroir. There is a beautiful layered texture and perfect balance with a refined finish sporting notes of dark spices and dark chocolate. Very fine with upside. 94+
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7/18/2023 - dream wrote: flawed
Corked
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4/24/2023 - mchern02 wrote: 92 Points
2 hour decant
Plush and wet. red fruit, bright with tones of chocolate and damp spice. Velvety texture but not a ton of depth. The merlot denominated but can franc adds some textured depth.
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4/11/2023 - burlingtonm Likes this wine: 91 Points
Vertical from 1966 to 2014 at Wine Watch: this was quite evolved and while not one of the better wines, this had some charm and decent fruit.
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2/2/2023 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Velvet, plush black fruit.
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11/25/2022 - timbo9313 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Our anniversary dinner at Grand Hyatt Steakhouse. Crab cake and Porterhouse Wagyu. Cork was almost perfect. Decanted for 30 mins. Nose was subtle but gradually more vibrant. Smooth and balanced but after taste was a bit disappointing. It's my first Cheval Blanc so I didn't know what to expect. Overall ... we loved this wine and served well with the food .
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11/17/2022 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
A bit indistinct.
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4/16/2022 - DrZett wrote: 93 Points
Lots of ripe dark fruits, some nice spices, some earthy, tobacco like notes too. Fruit driven style. This is big but everything feels in a good balance. An interesting and underestimated vintage. In a good spot, drink within the next decade. (IG)
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11/21/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 96 Points
A private dinner (Restaurant Café Caron, Amsterdam, NL): Decanted for 90 minutes. Very tight and firm, so youthful, marvellous energy, (tonka bean) oak is only just starting to integrate, deep kirsch fruit with a touch of black currant, almost completely primary (even if there is a touch of lovage), expansive palate with great focus and precision, very early maturity, needs another 10 years and preferably 20. Score based on potential.
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11/3/2021 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
Quaffable.
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11/16/2020 - chatters wrote:
Cheval Blanc plus supps (E & M's in the rocks, Sydney): Funky, farty, meaty, savoury, leathery, earthy, spicy, perhaps slight oxidation, with time and plentiful agitation red and black plums, polished oak, a little raspberry compote note. Medium plus intensity acidity, chalky tannic grip closes down the palate, ripe plummy fruit, that raspberry compote underpin, liquorice, a little herbaceous note. Balanced. Long.
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11/11/2020 - apg23 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Smells of pepper and ripe fruit. Balanced and lovel to drink. Has a note to it that I don’t taste in many other Bordeaux. Almost reminds me of a Pinot characteristics.
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10/3/2020 - BillyT Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dinner at Marcel's, DC. Closed upon opening but after a 30 minute decant it began to express excellent fruit, balance, elegant satiny mouth feel but lacked complexity and depth. I see the mixed reactions but believe my experience closely reflects winemakers51. While approachable now it should evolve over time. The question for me is this wine in it for the long haul.
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6/30/2020 - Winemaker51 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Drinking beautifully now, but certainly will hold. Decanted 2 hours. At first, closed in with mild, milk chocolate notes. Upon second glass, the complex, earthy/truffle and forest floor aromatics kicked in; along with Cabernet spice (vs tobacco) and some cassis. Some reviewers thought some new world ripeness and perhaps some truth. I thought it was more ripe Merlot influenced. Generous, dark cherry and black berry compote. Some tannins, which worked well with out steaks. The 2006 is excellent at this point and better than the disappointing 2004.
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1/11/2020 - Zweder wrote: 96 Points
“Best Bottle” tasting in Fitzgerald, Rotterdam. (By JvT @ Fitzgerald): In the bouquet creamy red and dark berries. On the palate Cab. Franc and some bell pepper, but also beautifully ripe fruits. A bit rustic and earthy. Beautiful acidity and tannin. Still youthful. If I had a bottle, I would probably wait at least another 5 years.
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12/16/2019 - Cailles wrote:
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: To be honest, I haven’t had enough time to taste it properly. When the flight was revealed I still was sucked-in by the 2009 and 2010 served alongside. As the next flight was about to be served and as 2006 was not a particularly good vintage I took a quick sniff and sip, found it rather lean and uninspiring and went on.
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11/29/2019 - Collector1855 wrote: 89 Points
Chateau Cheval Blanc - 30 year vertical (1949-2015) tasted blind: This was my least favorite wine of the tasting. Of course it had a hard stance next to the stellar 2009/10 duo. The issue I had with this wine was its cooked fruit nose which was followed buy an alcoholic palate and slightly dry finish which. Felt somewhat disjointed. One of my least favorite wines of this vertical.
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6/17/2019 - steinersing wrote: 92 Points
Nose quite attractive, probably ok for vintage but some green notes disturb a bit
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5/18/2019 - Friendless Drinkers Club Likes this wine: 98 Points
May Meeting of Friendless Drinkers Club (Vancouver Club): Double decanted 4.5 before and put into decanter prior to drinking. Very aromatic. Floral, confectionary and bubble gum aromas. Red currants, dark berries and cherries, vanilla with a mineral, acidic finish. Soft tannins and velvety on the palate. Blend of 54% Merlot 45% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon
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1/13/2019 - Winemaker51 Likes this wine: 93 Points
More on the black cherry to mild cranberry fruit aromas. Some oak (vanilla/caramel) and hints of pencil lead. Decanted 2 hours; which was just right. Did not find excessive herbal, vegetal as one reviewer found. Color was medium to dark ruby with slight garnet hues. Flavors are super elegant, red fruits and not as concentrated as with riper vintages. Tannins are soft; but some slight green/hardness, which are indicative of the vintage. A lovely, drinkable Cheval Blanc, that I would enjoy now, but no rush to open.
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11/7/2018 - steinersing wrote: 94 Points
a bit thinner than 09, but quite attractive now and multi facetted.
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6/18/2018 - steinersing wrote: 93 Points
again not my favourite Cheval Blanc vintage, but it is a great wine nevertheless
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6/16/2018 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points
During a walkabout/tasting dinner, so only brief impressions. Lots of CabFranc notes here. Young, herbaceous, some dark fruit and flowers. Not bad but I wish for some riper fruit.
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2/2/2018 - Tompa71 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fantastic wine that could use some more time in the cellar.
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12/26/2017 - Bborger@borger.ca wrote:
Needs time. Cellar to 2025 at least
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10/19/2017 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 92 Points
2017 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/16/2017-10/25/2017 (New York City, NY): A deep red/garnet blend of 55% Merlot and 45% Cabernet Franc, the 2006 Cheval Blanc offers an intense bouquet of bramble fruits, cassis, lavender, bittersweet chocolate and minerals. Full-bodied, freshly acidic, seamlessly alcoholic and with substantial grippy tannins, it delivers flavors mirroring the nose, adding a slight green element on the lengthy back end. Despite being a success for the vintage, this does not possess the charm that Cheval Blanc typically exudes in better years. This will require more time in the cellar, but I doubt that it will ever become something monumental. Drink 2025-2040.
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10/12/2017 - chatters wrote:
The Grand Tour - day eleven (Bordeaux): Aromas of mint, blackcurrant, slightly peppery spice, and some cocoa powder, graphite and pencil shavings. Juicy and fleshy, lashings of primary fruit, breadth on the mid palate with chamois soft taninns, very long , beautifully balanced….wonderful
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9/7/2017 - LWI wrote: 93 Points
At the Chateau. Spicy and deep, blackthorns and some blueberries; spicy, a bit edgy and awkward, dark fruit. Wait.
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6/9/2017 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
CB dinner. Still to early to approach, quite tannic. Aromatically leans more Cab Franc, nice lift.
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6/2/2017 - soyhead wrote:
nose -light raspberry, damp earth, mint. soft nose
mouth - black cherry, tobacco, earth, strong mint emergent with time in the glass. purity and elegance are noted with minimal flashiness. good perhaps i was hoping for more fireworks. with time i can foresee additional development though i dont think any metamorphosis will occur. hold
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4/4/2017 - mtarrant003 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Served with lunch at Cheval Blanc. A lovely mellow, balanced wine that was a real pleasure to drink but did not blow me away. The fruit has mellowed and the oak is well integrated and it was an excellent accompaniment to the duck that was served. Medium / long finish.
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1/26/2017 - RaggaMat wrote: 91 Points
Vertical tasting of six recent vintages. There is a leafy forest floor aroma. Clearly the most developed of the wines on show. Lots of black fruit with tobacco and cedar. Complex and intriguing. Well balanced although the tannins are a little dry.
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11/24/2016 - beatles wrote: 93 Points
Approaching maturity but not there yet; tannins still tight, but the fruit is full, it widens in the glass. 1st bottle seemed somewhat closed and muted, another bottle opened, much fresher and younger looking. #Angleterre
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6/11/2016 - steinersing wrote: 92 Points
very young and a bit closed now - good substance there, but not showing well
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6/10/2016 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Wouldn't touch this yet, very young.
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5/25/2016 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points
Tight, needs time and air to develop. This is a structured, firm, strict, tannic style of Cheval Blanc, with a classic, brisk, masculine, red berry character. Others that prefer that style of wine will like it more than I did.
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3/24/2016 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
Elegant, crisp but plenty of depth here. Very young but a potentially superb vintage for Cheval. Interesting that Pierre said he "prefers '06 to '05 but I always fall on the side of elegance and finesse." Glad I have this in the cellar and it will start drinking soon. Intimate dinner for 8 with Pierre Lurton in the rotunda on the roof at Nomad, NYC.
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11/7/2015 - rossi.wine wrote: 93 Points
Blueberries, spices, smoke on the nose. On the palate very tight and closed. Very powerful, but fairly ripe tannins. Grippy without much detectable fruit underneath those tannins. Time will tell where this one will go. 92-93(++?)
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6/25/2015 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
Ficofi
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5/26/2015 - elvinet Likes this wine: 94 Points
Color cereza picota, ribete granatoso, capa alta y gruesa lágrima bien lenta y bien tintada. Nariz de muy buena intensidad con aromas de fruta madura muy intensos y agradables (fruta del bosque en compota con mucha frambuesa) que predominan sobre los finos y elegantes tostados de la barrica, notas lácteas bien cremosas y agradables (yogur de fruta del bosque), suaves y elegantes especiados (pimentón dulce), suaves notas avainilladas, un conjunto donde prima la elegancia con un notable equilibrio, cacao y chocolate con menta (After Eight), algo de monte bajo bien fresco, laurel y ligero fondo ahumado. Sutil entrada en boca con una suave astringencia, buen recorrido elegante con notable estructura, fina textura seductora, buena intensidad y unos taninos dulzones, muy buena acidez, elegante, finos especiados con unos tostados que están bien integrados, suave, buena amplitud, fino y muy buena persistencia. Final largo, postgusto de fruta madura y retronasal suavemente ahumado.
More information: http://www.elvi.net/2013/12/21/chateau-cheval-blanc-2006/
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12/27/2014 - sandwich wrote: 88 Points
What a major disappointment. Six hour decant yielded a great nose but a pedestrestrian wine. Very rough around the edges with a lot of independent notes that simply do not work together. This is very disjointed at this stage. Maybe it is closed or just not ready to drink, but this is not something that can be enjoyed at this stage. This is the only 2006 Bordeaux that has let me down.
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10/5/2014 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points
Frim, bright, fresh, steely, slightly austere style of Cheval Blanc. Better on the nose than the palate. There is good definition of fruit, and perhaps another 10-15 years will help soften the wine, but this is better for lovers of more classic styles and vintages of Bordeaux. The wine was produced from a blend of 55% Merlot and 45% Cabernet Franc.
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6/10/2014 - fatfishzsy Likes this wine: 92 Points
品丽珠之王,50%之上的比例。因此香气中充满了青草的清新香气,香气风格相当古典,优雅,入口厚实且异常宽广,开瓶瓶醒2.5小时,入杯还是没有醒开,香气封闭,入杯1小时后,微微打开香气。
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9/28/2012 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 Points
Académie des Cinquante Bordeaux visit; 9/26/2012-9/29/2012: Good colour, slightly maturing rim; initially still a bit closed on the nose, quite oaky (low toast), opens up to a fresh, Cabernet Franc dominated nose, peppery and with sweet raspberry fruit, lovely depth and minerality; richly tannic, medium weight, still very hard but the balance seems to be allright even if it does not have a lot of flesh, typical 2006-freshness; good but not exceptional length. A difficult wine. It is clearly very closed but I wonder.
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8/17/2012 - Papies wrote:
5th Annual Pilgrimage to Chateau Lanessan (and its 200 year old cellar ); 8/17/2012-8/19/2012 (Chateau Lanessan, Bordeaux): Tasted at the chateau. far too young at this stage to honestly judge, with intense mocha notes from the wood on the nose fighting with light spicy ones. On the palate the youth is evident and we would suggest one awaits maybe 10 years before approaching . Will not rate at this stage. ( CB 1994 is the one to go for especially price adjusted in our view)
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7/5/2009 - Wil wrote: 92 Points
Very nice on the attack, well structured, full, rich and complex. A bit tannic; lovely finish. Tasted blind.
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