Why this vintage
- 100/100 from Wine Advocateand 6 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2023 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionMildew cost a good share of the harvest; what was brought in is early, fresh and promising.
Critic scores
- Wine Advocate100
- James Suckling99
- Decanter99
- Vinous98
- Jeb Dunnuck98
- Wine Enthusiast97
- Wine Spectator96
The 2023 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 92/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Mildew cost a good share of the harvest; what was brought in is early, fresh and promising.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Blend of the 2023 vintage
Merlot(52%), Cabernet-franc(46%), Cabernet-sauvignon(2%)
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2023 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet franc, merlot, cabernet sauvignon, malbec.
Terroir
Cheval Blanc's mosaic terroir of clay, sand and gravel is unique. Two good fairies watched over its cradle: Pomerol and Saint-Émilion. Soils and subsoils, configuration, sedimentation, water and mineral deficit — everything here combines to achieve the required concentration and to shape the wine's ageing. It is a very ancient history, going back to the Quaternary and to the sediments of the nearby Isle river. A geological union for an exceptional wine, for the quality of the soil determines the success of the grape variety. At Cheval Blanc, the conjunction of a terroir of the very highest quality with an unusual varietal mix gives the wine a unique organoleptic personality.
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Texts and documents 2023
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.