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Château Cheval Blanc (French for "White Horse Castle"), is a wine producer in Saint-Émilion in the Bordeaux wine region of France. Its wine received the highest rank of Premier Grand Cru Classé (A) status in the Classification of Saint-Émilion wine, holding it from 1955 until withdrawing in July 2021. The estate was reported as stating, ‘In 2012 (the last classification re-evaluation), we noticed a profound change in the philosophy of the classification, especially regarding new criteria that amount to “marketing drift”, such as the importance of product placement, how often an estate appears in media, including PR and in social media, along with wine tourism infrastructure,’ They also questioned the ‘evaluation system’, which they described in the letter as having lost sight of the ‘notion of identity and typicity, as if the culture of wine, its aging capacity over several decades, and knowledge of the appellation were unnecessary for evaluating the estates’.
Cheval Blanc's vineyards (Merlot 60%, Cabernet Franc 40%) enjoy a variety of soils: gravel, clay and sand, all underpinned by an impermeable sedimentary rock (`crasse de fer'). Vinification takes place in curved cement tanks ranging is size from 20-110hl, followed by 18 months' maturation in new oak barrels.
Cheval Blanc requires a minimum 10 years of bottle age and the best vintages can last for 50 years or more. There is a second wine, not produced in every vintage called Le Petit Cheval.
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