WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 908; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2004 which is 857. The average score for Château Cheval Blanc is 907, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Cheval Blanc they use words like Fruit, Sweet, Tannins, Black, Full, Freshness, Purple, Menthol, Opulent, Dense, Dark, Ruby, Deep, Chocolate, Young. The 2004 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2004 but no other wine from Château Cheval Blanc: Cranberry, Herb, Stuffing, Muscular, Tar, Playful, Rasping, Depths, Purplish, Lean. The wine has roughly a similar level of alcohol for the producer (13.5% vs 13.1%); it has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this region in 2004 (13.5% vs 12.86%). The wine has been ready to drink for 8 years (since 2009) and should be consumed within the next 5 years (by 2022). It normally takes wines from Château Cheval Blanc around 9 years to be ready to start drinking, and 20 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Margaux 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Margaux 2006, Château Latour 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Palmer 2005, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Angélus 2009, Château Palmer 2007, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very low value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score. This wine is in the bottom 10% of wines by value; you might very well be paying for the name, rather than the wine.
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Prices & Deals for Château Cheval Blanc 2004
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
233 |
| 2016-01-04 |
gbp |
290 |