WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 870; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2012 which is 879. The average score for Château Cheval Blanc is 907, making this a below 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 2012 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2012 but no other wine from Château Cheval Blanc: Almonds, Quince, Oppulent, Alluring, Loamy, Overdone, Marmalade, Approachable, Suppleness, Lofty. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 13.23%); it has significantly lower levels of alcohol for the region in 2012 (12.5% vs 12.92%). The wine will be ready to drink in 3 years (in 2020) and should be consumed within the next 28 years (by 2045). 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 La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Mouton Rothschild 2005, Château Margaux 2010, Château Haut-Brion 2009; but better value alternatives would be Château Pichon-Lalande 2005, Château Giscours 2005, Château Léoville-Poyferré 2010, Les Forts de Latour 2005, Château Palmer 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 2012
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-16 |
gbp |
372 |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
292 |