LiQuery - Ch�teau Cheval Blanc 2017

Item:	629295
Size:	750 mL (25.4 oz)
Type:	2017 VINTAGES
Release Date:	2020-04-01
Producer:	Jean Pierre Moueix
Location:	France - Bordeaux
Price:	$1200.85 Price History
Style:	Red Wine
Alcohol:	13.0%
Varietal:	Bordeaux
Sugar Code:	XD (2.0 g/L)
Rating:	96
Total Inventory:	13 vs. on
Cellar:	2017
Glass Style:	Voigner/Chardonnay Purchase Glass

Description
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Tasting Notes
A sense of forward motion here makes you smile - a reaction that's missing in many wines this year. The tannins push their way right through the palate, but cradle the cassis and bilberry fruit rather than smother it, helped by the fact that floral and smoky aromatics rise up. There's good persistency and you get that little kick and dance of minerality. The precision engineering is clear, but the overall feeling is simply of cohesion and enjoyment. 3.65ph. 100% new oak, but without a trace even now at this early stage. Approximately 60% of the wine this year came from the gravelly plots which were less affected by the frost, which accounts for a slightly higher level of Cabernet Sauvignon than usual. They used perhaps 1% of secondary budding in this blend (five weeks behind schedule at bud-break and then around 15 days by harvest) and kept picking from 15 September to 11 October - an extremely long schedule compared to most estates in 2017. With around 30% loss to frost, there wi

Tasting Notes