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2024 Ch Cheval Blanc St Emilion - 6x75cl
06C4CHEV6PK _ 2024 - Ch Cheval Blanc St Emilion - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Cheval Blanc
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Cabernet Franc / Merlot
  • Drinking 2029 - 2058
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur

2024 - Ch Cheval Blanc St Emilion - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Cheval Blanc
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Cabernet Franc / Merlot
  • Drinking 2029 - 2058
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur
Case price: £1,650.00 In Bond
Please note: These wines are lying abroad until shipping and can only be purchased In Bond. If you are an existing Private Reserves customer, the wine will be automatically transferred on arrival. Otherwise, you will be contacted on arrival in the UK to arrange delivery, In Bond storage in Private Reserves or another bonded warehouse.
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  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2025, Score: 97-98

    Yields were down 34% overall, but Cheval Blanc team’s hard work saw 70% of the finished wine going into the Grand Vin. This is an absolute star in the Right Bank. So full of brightness and purity. Graphite, tayberry, lavender and fresh herbal scents, this has a lovely clarity of fruit. The tannins are harmonious and rounded, with superb sweetness for the vintage accentuated by the flavours of liquorice and fresh roasted coffee bean. Pitched to perfection, with its balance between fruit, tannic profile, alcohol and acidity. This is a beauty, with the flavours lingering long after we drove out of the estate! A wine which will be remembered for many years.

  • Neal Martin, April 2025, Score: 93-95

    The 2024 Cheval Blanc was picked from September 18 until October 3 and aged entirely in new oak with a little dabbling in concrete tanks and amphorae. The purity on the nose is the first facet that you notice with perfumed black cherry, blackcurrant, wild strawberry and touches of potpourri and crushed stone. There is certainly some mineralité here. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly brittle tannins. Very well balanced, this is clearly a Cheval Blanc built in a more elegant, sapid, linear style with a residual pepperiness that lingers in the mouth. It will need just 2 or 3 years in bottle and should drink well for 20 to 25 years. The 2024 is charming and refined.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2025, Score: 92-94

    The 2024 Cheval Blanc is a blend taken from 37 of the 45 parcels on the property. Dried flowers, mocha, rose petal and blood orange open nicely in the bouquet, leading to an understated mid-palate and a subtly persistent finish. Understated and nuanced, the 2024 offers lovely forward fruit in a soft, accessible style with no hard edges or awkward contours. All the elements are nicely put together, and yet there is no denying the fact that the 2024 is very light. Élevage will be everything here.

  • Wine Advocate, April 2025, Score: 94-96

    A blend of 48% Cabernet Franc, 48% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2024 Château Cheval Blanc is one of the stars of the vintage. Unwinding in the glass with notes of minty berries and plums mingled with violets, cigar wrapper and rose petals, it's medium-bodied, suave and complete, with a cool, layered core of fruit, beautifully integrated tannins and a long, aromatic finish. Pierre-Olivier Clouet and his team conducted an aggressive green harvest and also, exceptionally, used densimetric sorting to mitigate heterogenous maturity between and within bunches (a consequence of a protracted flowering), accepting losses to rot in pursuit of full maturity. Yields were 39 hectoliters per hectare at harvest, but some 34% of that was eliminated between sorting and press wine (which is never retained at Cheval Blanc). Of what fermented, however, 70% ended up in the grand vin.

  • James Suckling, May 2025, Score: 96-97

    So succulent and long on the compacted palate, this shows just enough clean ripe berries as well as cedar and chocolate. This has polished, energizing tannins with a lovely and thoughtful drive, the light austerity giving the wine a push in the finish. Only 12.8% alcohol. A blend of 46% merlot, 48% cabernet franc and 6% cabernet sauvignon.

  • Matthew Jukes, May 2025, Score: 19+

    For the third year in a row, it was a great privilege to taste with Arnaud de Laforcade, Commercial Financial Director at Cheval Blanc. His detailed background notes inform so much about the flavour and stance of the pair of fascinating and forensically assembled wines made here. Arnaud explained that only 66% of the harvest was bottled, and from a possible yield of 40 hl/ha, only 28 hl/ha were vinified. Interestingly, the Cheval Blanc estate footprint has barely changed since 1832, and the joy of this wine is that it uses fruit from virtually all sectors of the estate to build complexity. Only the sandier plots are regularly relegated to the second wine (which came in in 1988). The difficulties of the vintage are well documented, and with a six-week-long flowering, irregular ripeness, even within bunches, was the biggest hurdle aside from obvious botrytis concerns. Sorting was critical here, and this explained the cliff edge difference between potential yields and actual yields, and the fruit in this wine and Le Petit Cheval is pristine. Cheval Blanc is another property that used a ‘densimetric bath’ to eliminate grapes that looked ripe to the eye but lacked genuine fruit weight and density of ripeness. The level of care and attention needed to ‘drive’ a Delta Densilys is incredible, and Cheval Blanc has mastered this useful piece of kit. The ‘baths’ used were plot-specific and considered the required changes that occurred overnight between harvested grapes and those that left the cold room the next day. This extraordinary attention to detail eliminated significant percentages of sub-standard grapes, resulting in an incredible wine, built on terrific tannins and cool, long, immovable fruit notes. There is tremendous strictness here, and this is undoubtedly a Cheval Blanc designed for committed purists and life-long devotees of this historic property. This wine feels discreetly addictive and intellectually challenging. With no unnecessary generosity or flattery, this is an unflinchingly honest and stunningly refined example of why this Château has remained so famous for nigh on two centuries. Cheval Club Card holders need only apply, as they have the monastic patience to allow this wine to reach its apogee slowly and deliberately. In time, 2024 Cheval Blanc will tell the story of its vintage with extraordinary clarity and determination – the twin traits responsible for its creation.

  • Jancis Robinson, April 2025, Score: 17

    Cabernet-led with the Merlot fleshing out the middle and providing identity. Plenty of freshness with fine, integrated tannins providing length and persistence. Light to medium weight but the oak (new) completely absorbed. Dark-fruit notes again on the finish. Less seductive than some years but has potential. (JL)

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2025, Score: 97-98

    Yields were down 34% overall, but Cheval Blanc team’s hard work saw 70% of the finished wine going into the Grand Vin. This is an absolute star in the Right Bank. So full of brightness and purity. Graphite, tayberry, lavender and fresh herbal scents, this has a lovely clarity of fruit. The tannins are harmonious and rounded, with superb sweetness for the vintage accentuated by the flavours of liquorice and fresh roasted coffee bean. Pitched to perfection, with its balance between fruit, tannic profile, alcohol and acidity. This is a beauty, with the flavours lingering long after we drove out of the estate! A wine which will be remembered for many years.

  • Jane Anson, April 2025, Score: 94

    Lilac, peony flowers, same family of aromatics as the Petit Cheval, same feeling of finesse and precision, but here everything has been taken up a notch, more density, more slate and pumice stone texture. Expect subtle complexity, a wine that steals up on you, impresses in its precision and clarity. July and August just 20mm of rain each month, well below 30 year average, 140mm rain in September, highest since 2006, harvest September 18 to October 3, 3.62ph (3.9ph in 2022), 37 plots out of the 56 in the vineyard are in here. 100% new oak for ageing. Looking forward to seeing after ageing, it has all the elements and bones in place for a totally delicious Cheval.

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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