Saint-Émilion · vintage 2024
Why this vintage
- 96-97 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 4 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2024 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionA difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early.
Critic scores
- James Suckling96-97
- Wine Advocate94-96
- Jeb Dunnuck94-96
- Decanter95
- Vinous90
The 2024 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early.
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.
Tasting
""Le Château Cheval Blanc 2024 est l'une des stars du millésime. Il se dévoile dans le verre avec des notes de baies et de prunes mentholées mêlées à des notes de violette, de cigare et de pétales de rose. Il est moyennement corsé, suave et complet, avec un noyau fruité frais et complexe, des tanins magnifiquement intégrés et une longue finale aromatique. "" Wine Advocate
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Blend of the 2024 vintage
- 48 % Cabernet franc
- 46 % Merlot
- 6 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2024 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet franc, merlot, cabernet sauvignon, malbec — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2024 sheet
- 40 hl/haYield
- 70,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Les grandes lignes de la vinification à Cheval Blanc reposent sur une maturation fraiche des raisins, une vinification parcellaire pure, des levures indigènes (sélectionnées sur le domaine), une extraction douce, une macération longue, des remontages manuels et un seul délestage au cours de 4 semaines de cuvaison. La fermentation malolactique se fait en cuve, puis les vins sont élevés en barriques.
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Ageing
18 mois de barriques (neuves 100 %) - Collage au blanc d'oeuf
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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 2024
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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.