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| "Put aside all your preconceptions of 'Bordeaux Blanc' and don't even try to compare it to Pessac-Léognan. This has its own gorgeous expression of these grapes, defying regional tradition .... [A] white that is at once without peers, but is also quintessentially Cheval Blanc."
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate |
| “Cheval Blanc’s co-owners, luxury goods group LVMH and Albert Frère, bought the vines in 2006 after La Tour du Pin Figeac lost its classified ranking in Saint-Émilion. Experiments with white wine on a small area began in 2008. The Cheval Blanc team field-grafted three different clones of Sauvignon Blanc. In the most recent 2012 Saint-Émilion reclassification, 1.38 hectares of the vineyard was redrawn to be included within the footprint of Château Cheval Blanc itself. That left 6.5 hectares for the white wine plan. Cheval Blanc re-planted some parts of the vineyard and field-grafted others, giving some plants up to 40 years of age in terms of their rootstock. The vineyard is 80% Sauvignon Blanc and 20% Sémillon. The estate plans to add Sémillon to the wine from the 2018 vintage. ‘We spent several years understanding what the terroir would give us and testing everything from clones to yeast strains for the vinification,’ Cheval Blanc technical director Pierre-Olivier Clouet told Decanter. ‘It is very important to us that this is a classical Bordeaux white, tasting more of our terroir than any overtly varietal flavours.’”
Jane Anson, Decanter |
| | | "The 2020 Le Petit Cheval (Blanc) is fabulous. Rich, creamy and wonderfully expansive, the 2020 is just gorgeous. Lemon confit, white flowers, passion fruit and a touch of oak all grace this wonderfully expressive dry white from Cheval Blanc. I especially like how the 2020 gains freshness with aeration, always a good sign with whites. There's tremendous precision and class here."
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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