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2014 Ch Cheval Blanc 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 6x75cl
06B4CHEV6PK _ 2014 - Ch Cheval Blanc 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Cheval Blanc
  • Region St Emilion
  • Drinking 2023 - 2038
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Now

2014 - Ch Cheval Blanc 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Cheval Blanc
  • Region St Emilion
  • Drinking 2023 - 2038
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Now
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Case price: £2,299.24 Duty Paid inc VAT
Equivalent Bottle Price: £383.20 Duty Paid inc VAT
Case price: £1,900.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis, April 2015, Score: 95-97

    A blend of 55% Merlot and 45% Cabernet Franc, this is full of spiced cherry fruits. Extraordinarily graceful, with thrilling finesse. There is total harmony between the tannins, fruit and alcohol, and this wine exemplifies how delicacy and elegance can also produce huge complexity and intensity of flavours. Wonderfully long and complete, an utter pleasure to taste.

  • Goedhuis, April 2015, Score: 95-97

    A blend of 55% Merlot and 45% Cabernet Franc, this is full of spiced cherry fruits. Extraordinarily graceful, with thrilling finesse. There is total harmony between the tannins, fruit and alcohol, and this wine exemplifies how delicacy and elegance can also produce huge complexity and intensity of flavours. Wonderfully long and complete, an utter pleasure to taste.

  • Neal Martin, April 2015, Score: 95-97

    The Château Cheval Blanc 2014 is a blend of 45% Cabernet Franc and 55% Merlot, picked from 19 September until 8 October. The alcohol level is 13.25% matured in 100% new oak, which Pierre Lurton told me was prolonged due to the heterogenous soils and wanting to wait for the Cabernet Franc on clay soils to reach full maturity. It is quintessential Cheval Blanc on the nose: predominantly red fruit here rather than black, touches of incense and dried roses, a dab of liquorice underneath. The Cabernet Franc is the engine behind the aromatics. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannin. This is not a silky smooth Cheval Blanc – here there is an graininess to the tannin that exert a gentle grip in the mouth. It is a complex and cerebral wine with cracked black pepper on the almost ferrous finish. Like the second wine, it is linear and fresh, in some ways reminiscent of the string of superb wines produced in the 1980s. This is a formidable Cheval Blanc whose evolution will be fascinating to witness.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2015, Score: 93-96

    The 2014 Cheval Blanc is delicate, saline and beautifully layered throughout. Mocha, dark cherries, plums, menthol and new leather are all pushed forward in a mid-weight, gracious Cheval Blanc that impresses with its superb overall balance and pure harmony. Cabernet Franc, 45% of this year's blend, is super-expressive in the glass. Sweet rose petal, violet, mint and herbs are laced into the sensual finish. Here too, the style is resonant, generous and inviting, with beams of acidity and salinity that convey brightness.

  • James Suckling, March 2015, Score: 92-93

    Very firm and fresh with blueberry, blackberry and chocolate. Full body, firm tannins. This is long and deep. A very beautiful second wine.

  • Decanter, April 2015, Score: 95

    55% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Franc. 75% of the production. A truly elegant wine with beautifully perfumed aroma and flavour. Fine texture and tannins. Long, persistent finish. Lacks the density to be great, but still very fine. Drink: 2022-2040

  • Matthew Jukes, May 2015, Score: 18.5+

    (52 Merlot, 48 Cabernet Franc) | 100% new oak. This is a cooler and drier vintage for Cheval Blanc and the sage advice here is that it is shaped like the impressive 2001 vintage. With undoubted power and richness but still quite tender and rather fresh fruit this is a firmly made and tightly coiled wine. There is tension and grip on the palate and the oak is very noticeable (it is 100% after all), but the fruit is violet and black cherry-driven and sleek and granite-y, which I really identify with. Expressive, long, but not showy or too flashy, this is a quiet, discreet Cheval Blanc and it is more of a classic style than one sees in the hotter years. It clearly has a good 30 years ahead of it.

  • Jancis Robinson, April 2015, Score: 17.5

    75% production. 45% Cabernet Franc, 55% Merlot. All the terroirs of the property but especially the gravel . Bright ruby, gentle and rather muted. Very cool . No drama! Gentle and rather balletic. Some burgundian force towards the end of the palate. Lots to chew on and rather different from the old style. A flight from drama! 13.25% Drink 2024-2036

  • Tim Atkin, May 2015, Score: 98

    One of the great successes of the vintage, this grand vin represented 75% of production in 2014. It’s a wonderfully refined, nuanced wine that doesn’t show its 100% new oak. Grassy, mineral and elegant, with notes of graphite, red berries and cinnamon, silky, supple tannins and remarkable palate length. Drink: 2022-30

  • Wine Spectator, April 2015, Score: 96-99

    Reserved aromatically for now, but this has a lot at its clutch, with remarkably silky plum, currant and raspberry fruit inlaid seamlessly with alder, rooibos tea and bergamot notes. There's a fine minerality that stretches out the finish, with remarkable cut, delineation and finesse. This is gorgeous.

Producer

Château Cheval Blanc

Several years ago, 10 of the world's top wine specialists were asked if they could own a wine estate, which one would it be. At least 5 of them said Château Cheval Blanc. Indeed, this château is like no other. Wonderfully silky and smooth yet powerful, Cheval Blanc is often approachable when young yet has the capacity to age for many years. Its unusually high proportion of Cabernet Franc (usually 50% or more) accompanied by...Read more

Several years ago, 10 of the world's top wine specialists were asked if they could own a wine estate, which one would it be. At least 5 of them said Château Cheval Blanc. Indeed, this château is like no other. Wonderfully silky and smooth yet powerful, Cheval Blanc is often approachable when young yet has the capacity to age for many years. Its unusually high proportion of Cabernet Franc (usually 50% or more) accompanied by Merlot has undoubtedly contributed to its allure.Read less

Region

St Emilion

South of Pomerol lies the medieval, perched village of St Emilion. Surrounding St Emilion are vines that produce round, rich and often hedonistic wines. Despite a myriad of soil types, two main ones dominate - the gravelly, limestone slopes that delve down to the valley from the plateau and the valley itself which is comprised of limestone, gravel, clay and sand. Despite St Emilion's popularity today, it was not until the 1980s to early 1990s that attention was brought to this region. Robert Parker, the famous wine critic, began reviewing their Merlot-dominated wines and giving them hefty scores. The rest is history as they say. Similar to the Médoc, there is a classification system in place which dates from 1955 and outlines several levels of quality. These include its regional appellation of St Emilion, St Emilion Grand Cru, St Emilion Grand Cru Classé and St Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé, which is further divided into "A" (Ausone and Cheval Blanc) and "B" (including Angélus, Canon, Figeac and a handful of others). To ensure better accuracy, the classification is redone every 10 years enabling certain châteaux to be upgraded or downgraded depending on on the quality of their more recent vintages.

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