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Château Cheval Blanc 2009

Red wine | Premier Grand Cru Classé A, Saint-Émilion AC

A great wine is first created in the vineyard. This is where a thousand daily gestures, carried out with the utmost meticulousness and infinitely repeated throughout the year, seasons and days, make Cheval Blanc an exceptional grand cru.

Product variants

CHF 1,150.00 (75cl)

CHF 1,150.00 (75cl) (75cl)

CHF 153.33/10cl

France Bordeaux
Merlot
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Sauvignon
10 - 20 years
14.00% vol.

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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Its dense blue/purple color is accompanied by an extraordinary nose of incense, raspberries, cassis, sweet forest floor and a subtle hint of menthol. Opulent and full-bodied with low acidity but no sense of heaviness, this dense, unctuously textured, super-smooth, velvety, pure, profound Cheval Blanc is impossible to resist despite its youthfulness. Anticipated maturity: 2018-2050+. (Robert Parker)
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Wine Spectator
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James Suckling

Super-spicy, this is an extremely elegant 2009 with enormous concentration and finesse. The complex finish lights up the sky and you wonder how this spectacular ripeness could have been more perfectly expressed. Drink or hold. (Horizontal Tasting, London, 2019)

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Château Cheval Blanc 2009

CHF 1,150.00 (75cl)

CHF 1,150.00 (75cl) (75cl)

Colour

A beautiful deep purple red.

Nose

The expression of the aromas delivers floral facets of violet and peony which evolve towards red fruit, raspberry and black cherry. This vintage is characterized by its brilliance, its aromatic freshness, its precision, its clarity.

Palate

The attack is ample. The mid-palate is full, fatty, voluptuous, voluptuous, with an endless finish. The tannins are suave, silky and elegant, on the palate the balance is perfect.

Wine-growing terroir

This vintage has both the richness and opulence of wines produced on clay soils, as well as the finesse and tight tannic structure of wines produced on gravelly soils. The soils and subsoils reflect the textural variety encountered on the Quaternary alluvium.

Winemaking

Vatting for 3 weeks in concrete vats under thermoregulation, aging for 18 to 20 months in new French oak barrels

Bottle closure

Cork

Packaging

Wooden box

Château Cheval Blanc

The history of the estate began in the 4th century, at the time of the Roman Empire. Then, the vineyard developed strongly in the Middle Ages. Château Cheval Blanc occupies a special position in the “Saint-Émilion” appellation, because it is located on the Quaternary alluvium of the Isle and enjoys a unique terroir (Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grape varieties).

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