Château Cheval-Blanc

Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé |

This wine is gorgeous in all facets, offering a simultaneously loamy and creamy mouthfeel, seamless layers of red and black currant, cherry, raspberry and blackberry fruit, and a long, tobacco-fueled finish that features alluring hints of black tea and incense. The fruit and terr...(read more)

This has dreamy aromas already, with notes of Lapsang souchong tea, smoldering cigar and cold charcoal wafting up from the core of dense yet supple currant, fig and blackberry preserves. A loamy edge thumps through the finish, giving this an addictive, head-bobbing bass line. Bes...(read more)

A lovely sanguine hint leads off, followed by racy, elegant juniper, tobacco, red currant and damson plum notes that move in unison. Broadens and deepens, adding notes of currant preserves, warm ganache and smoldering tobacco, with a swath of loamy structure. Yet even as the bass...(read more)

Pretty, with a light sanguine edge to the mix of red currant and damson plum fruit, backed by singed vanilla and cedar hints. A whiff of black tea adds a perfumy detail. Has some weight but this stays on the rounded side in terms of feel. Cabernet Franc and Merlot. Best from 2018...(read more)