1998 Chateau Cheval BlancColour : Red Producer : Chateau Cheval Blanc Country : France Region : Bordeaux Sub Region : St Emilion Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 1998 Capacity : 750 ml Standard Bottle Rating : WS 98 Wine Spectator Tasting Note : Aromas of blueberry, sweet tobacco, leather and pipe tobacco turning to raisins and Christmas cake. What a wine. Full bodied, with chewy tannins and a very well integrated palate. Dark color. A big and powerful wine still.

wafting from the glass with aromas of red berries and plums

various citrus and spiced apple is admirably pure and airy

Roagna has its modern winery

They did a softer extraction to compensate for the warmer year

the natural structure provided by the vintage’s cool spells combined with the clay soils’ natural density to produce a wine of greater structural depth than the 2017 or 2015

Quite showy

This combination of depth

while the mineral backbone adds focus and persistence

The wine is aged in old oak barrels that are not topped up during maturation

the Adelaide Hills and other cool-climate sites each year in a composition determined by the demands of quality rather than consistency of origin

Domaine de Chevalier’s wines are among the most consistently age-worthy produced in Pessac-Léognan

along with some crushed stone at the same time