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  • Country ranking ?

    643
  • Producer ranking ?

    33
  • Decanting time

    1h30min
  • When to drink

    now to 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Chinese style crispy duck pancakes.

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Cheval Blanc's ability, after several decades of ageing, to reach the heights is a plus that only the greatest wines are capable of offering. This ageing potential is due to infinite care in winemaking – literally thousands of meticulous operations from the time the first buds burst up until bottling – and the wine's intrinsic delicate balance. This fragile equilibrium can suffer from a bad storage of the wine at any time.


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The Story

Whether by design or by pure chance, there are in the world exceptional places. Cheval Blanc is one of these. Combining a unique soil with a symbiotic mix of grape varieties, Cabernet Franc and Merlot, Cheval Blanc produces a wine, which has the rare quality of being good at any age. It is without doubt one of the most consistent wines in the world. Cheval Blanc's unique identity is due to its varied soils, early-ripening microclimate, the per...

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Wine Information

For many the 1964 vintage conjures up images of a truly unique year. It was that in Burgundy, but not Bordeaux, even though the French minister of agriculture declared it to be the vintage of the century in Bordeaux. He made his declaration before the autumn rains began to fall. The vintage was, at any rate, a very good one, quite reminiscent of the 1962, whose large crops produced excellent wines.
The mild, wet winter was followed by a warm ...

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Vintage 1964

Pour beaucoup, le millésime 1964 évoque des images d’une année vraiment unique. C’était cela en Bourgogne, mais pas à Bordeaux, même si le ministre français de l’Agriculture a déclaré que c’était le millésime du siècle à Bordeaux. Il a fait sa déclaration avant que les pluies d’automne ne commencent à tomber. Le millésime a été, en tout cas, très bon, rappelant assez celui de 1962, dont les grandes récoltes produisaient d’excellents vins.

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Average Bottle Price

2017 2015 2013 2010 2005 2000
755€ +4.7% 721€ -7.8% 782€ +21.6% 643€ +7.5% 598€ +82.3% 328€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Tasting note

color

Deep and Ruby red

ending

Medium, Smooth and Flavorful

flavors

Cedar, Pepper, Leather, Mineral, Blackberry and Blackcurrant

nose

Intense, Complex, Opulent and Refined

recommend

Yes

taste

Low in Acidity, Warming, Medium tannin, Well-structured, Medium-bodied, Ripe, Elegant, Firm, Sweet and Silky tannins

Written Notes

An exhilarating magnum of 1964 Cheval Blanc was next. This was a deep, dark and smoky wine with loads of fruit, make that black cassis and red currant. It was rich and decadent with a touch of coconut and black raspberry flavors. This was exotically good, that old Cheval kink on full display, especially after all those Burgundies. (97M).

  • 97p

Tasted in July 2024. It was my third bottle in ten years. A well-preserved wine with soft fruit, truffles, subtle complexity, and refinement. It had excellent balance and a sublime finish.

  • 95p

This is a famous 1964 and did not disappoint us. It was still very sweet and rich with both spice and even berry notes. Wonderful stuff with Cheval's light touch.

  • 98p
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Information

Origin

St. Emilion, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Below Average

Fake factory

None

Glass time

1h

Inside Information

Like all the other great wines of Bordeaux, it is suggested to serve Château Cheval Blanc at a temperature of approximately 16-17°C. The bottle can be brought up from the cellar at a temperature of 14-15°C and stood upright so that it is at the right serving temperature in time for the meal.  
Château Cheval Blanc's rich, delicate nature precludes decanting long before drinking, but this depends very much on the vintage. However, the estate is in favour of intelligent careful decanting to reveal all of this great wine's aromas and flavours, as well as its vintage character..

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