Château CHEVAL BLANC 2024

Description

Jean-Marc Quarin 95 points www.quarin.com
Couleur rouge sombre, aux reflets noirs. Nez très aromatique, fin, fruité, subtil et crémeux. Touches complexes de truffe et de fruits noirs à l’agitation du verre. Ultra minutieux en entrée de bouche, gras et même complexe au milieu, le vin fond sur le palais, tout à la fois délicat et profond, sur une saveur de fruits noirs. C’est long et très bon. Assemblage : 48 % cabernet franc, 46 % merlot, 6 % cabernet sauvignon. Degré d’alcool : 12°8 – pH : 3,61. Aucun vin de presse.

Yves Beck 96-97 points www.yvesbeck.wine

Dégusté le 31.03.2025 par Yves Beck

48% Cabernet Franc, 46% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon

Bien marqué par l’élevage, le bouquet affiche un boisé élégant, des notes de cassis, de la réglisse et d’invitants parfums de pivoine. Le vin affiche de la largeur en attaque et se révèle de manière linéaire et constante. Il crée le lien entre vivacité et vigueur avec une évidente application dédiée à l’harmonie. Les tannins sont encore quelque peu anguleux, mais mûrs. Ils ne sont ni durs ni asséchants, donc parfaitement en mesure d’assumer le potentiel de garde qui est grand, surtout au vu de sa structure acide. Un Cheval Blanc qui assimile la réalité du millésime, sans artifice, avec pour leitmotiv la fraîcheur et la longévité. La finesse suivra, tous les ingrédients qui y contribueront sont présents. Finale salivante, légèrement saline et persistante.  2030-2064

William Kelley 94-96 points www.robertparker.com
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.

Neal Martin 93-95 points www.vinous.com
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 92-94 points www.vinous.com
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.