Cheval Blanc (750ML)
From Saint-Emilion
| Vintage: | 1947 |
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| Description: | 100 Rp / 20++ Jr / 98 Vm. Actual bottles shown. Please indicate in the order comments which number bottle you would like. What can I say about this mammoth wine that is more like port than dry red table wine? The 1947 Cheval Blanc exhibits such a thick texture it could double as motor oil. The huge nose of fruitcake, chocolate, leather, coffee, and Asian spices is mind-boggling. The unctuous texture and richness of sweet fruit are amazing. Consider the fact that this wine is, technically, appallingly deficient in acidity and excessively high in alcohol. Moreover, its volatile acidity levels would be considered intolerable by modern day oenologists. Yet how can they explain that after 47 years the wine is still remarkably fresh, phenomenally concentrated, and profoundly complex? It has to make you wonder about the direction of modern day winemaking. Except for one dismal, murky, troubled, volatile double-magnum, this wine has been either perfect or nearly perfect every time I have had it. But beware, there are numerous fraudulent bottles, particularly magnums, of 1947 Cheval Blanc in the marketplace. Having a 1947 Cheval Blanc served out of an impeccably stored magnum three times over the last three years made me once again realize what a great job I have. The only recent Bordeaux vintages that come even remotely close to the richness, texture, and viscosity of so many of these right bank 1947s are 1982 and 1990. - Robert Parker, Wine Advocate. Quite wonderful wine. This is the best bottle I have ever come across (and I had been lucky enough to have another exceptionally good bottle two months previously at a wonderful comparison of some of the great wines of the late 1940s and 1953s). I've been lucky enough to taste this wine relatively often and up to this time the best example had been from a magnum tasted in Burgundy in 1994 – but this was definitely the best bottle I have ever come across. Still bright crimson. Tingling with life and excitement. Rich but reverberating – like celestial sweet Earl Grey tea. Floral, lovely and so Fresh! This wine floats across the palate. There's the most amazing transparency to it – it's not heavy yet it makes an extraordinary impression. Then the flavours develop on the finish in a peacock's tail of complexity. I honestly don't expect ever to taste a wine better than this.-Jancis Robinson |
| Price: | $ 26 500.00 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from Grand Vin Wine Merchants
| Address: |
1003 4th Avenue East Olympia, WA 98506 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 360-350-4896 |
First added to 1000 Corks on February 19, 2018.
