Château Cheval Blanc

Château Cheval Blanc, St Emilion, 2024

Name: Château Cheval Blanc, St Emilion
Brand: Château Cheval Blanc
Price: 2260 GBP

94/100

Inside Bordeaux

93-95/100

Vinous

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2024
12x37.5cl
EP
£1,665.00
2024
3x75cl
EP
£830.00
2024
6x75cl
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£1,650.00
2024
3x1.5L
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£1,660.00
2024
1x3L
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£1,145.00
2024
1x6L
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£2,260.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

The Cheval Blanc 2024 opens with quite a reserved bouquet initially. With air, notes of crème de mûre, followed by rich aromas of crème de cassis, sandalwood, mint, white pepper, stones, violets, and iris emerge. It presents a fascinating juxtaposition between pure, seductively textured griotte fruit, and something wilder with suggestions of dried flowers, herbs and garrigue. It is quite strict and shy, somewhat modest, yet unmistakably a very smart wine, with great depth to its mineral-inflected fruit. Taut and linear with a certain nervy tension to the mid-palate awash with notes of cranberry, crushed rocks, and graphite. This was a labour of love, extreme hard work and draconian selection (34% of the crop was sold as bulk wine). As one would expect from Pierre-Olivier and team, the tannins are unimpeachable, contributing to an exquisite structure and a prolonged, saline finish. A superb Cheval Blanc that will reward patience.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

93-95/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

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 <em>mineralité</em> 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.

drinking window 2029 - 2050

date of review 05/2025

94/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

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.

drinking window 2032 - 2050

date of review 04/2025

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