CHEVAL BLANC
 The estate of Chateau Cheval
Blanc is situated in the furthest corner of St Emilion,
bordering on to Pomerol, and offers a very curious
mixture of soil and sub-soil areas which change nature
at each step. At one point, there are heavy soils
over a clay bedrock; at another, there are light soils
over a plain gravelly base, or else gravel soil on
an iron pan bed.
The result of this diversity of soils and the extremely
well chosen selection of grape varieties, combined
with the assiduous care taken over the wine growing
and wine making, gives the wine of Chateau Cheval
Blanc a great deal of mellowness, body and delicacy,
plus a delicious bouquet, but most particularly, a
distinctive style which make it always recognisable
and more and more in demand.
Until 1998 the vineyard was the property of the Fourcaud-Laussac
family for 150 years. It was then acquired privately
by French entrepreneur Bernhard Arnhoult. The vineyard
covers a surface area of 35 hectares, unchanged since
1850. The Fourcaud-Laussac family never stopped making
every possible improvement, in the drainage, the selection
of root stock, the installations, without disturbing
the choice of grapes used and preserving the maximum
of old vines, a token of the ever-increasing quality
of Chateau Cheval Blanc wines.
Wines:
Top Chateau Cheval Blanc vintages produced:
1921, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1982, 1990, 2000
Website www.chateau-cheval-blanc.com
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