WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 954; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2010 which is 883. The average score for Château Cheval Blanc is 905, 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 2010 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2010 but no other wine from Château Cheval Blanc: Inhibited, Homogeneity, Obdurate, Aloof, Honey, Lusciousness, Backbone, Allspice, Fleshier, Dominating. The wine will be ready to drink in 3 years (in 2020) and should be consumed within the next 33 years (by 2050). 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 Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Latour 2009, Château Lafleur 2010, Château Latour 2009, Château Margaux 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Palmer 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Les Forts de Latour 2009.
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 2010
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
596 |