Château Cheval Blanc, Le Petit Cheval Blanc, 2025 - Magnum
Château Cheval Blanc, Le Petit Cheval Blanc, 2025 - Magnum
- 150cl
- 14%
- White Still
- Merlot, Cabernet Franc
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Est. delivery in 2028.
We find ourselves with the second label from one of Saint-Émilion's most revered estates, where Merlot and Cabernet Franc dance together on the legendary plateau. Le Petit Cheval Blanc captures the house style in a more approachable format, offering the estate's signature elegance and mineral precision without requiring decades of patience.
The vineyard sits on Saint-Émilion's famous plateau, where ancient gravel beds meet clay and limestone subsoils. This unique geological composition, combined with the tempering influence of the nearby Dordogne River, creates ideal conditions for both Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The gravel provides excellent drainage whilst the clay retains enough moisture during dry spells, allowing the vines to develop the concentrated fruit and mineral complexity that defines Cheval Blanc's distinctive style.
Saint-Émilion represents the Right Bank's most prestigious appellation, where Merlot reigns supreme alongside Cabernet Franc. Unlike the Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated Left Bank, Saint-Émilion's clay and limestone soils favour these softer varieties, producing wines of remarkable elegance and aging potential. The appellation's classification system, revised regularly, recognises Cheval Blanc as one of only two Premier Grand Cru Classé A estates. The region's winemaking tradition dates back to Roman times, with its medieval village and limestone caves creating a unique terroir that produces some of Bordeaux's most sought-after wines.
The 2025 Bordeaux vintage emerged from one of the most demanding growing seasons in recent memory — the earliest budbreak since 1989, June temperatures second only to 2003 since records began, and an unusually early harvest beginning in August for the whites. Conditions that should have produced heavy, overripe wines. They didn't. Decanter's Georgie Hindle, who tasted close to 200 wines ahead of the formal campaign, describes "exceptional concentration, aromatic purity and a freshness that contradicts the record-breaking heat.
The early critical consensus places 2025 stylistically between the precision of 2020 and the structure of 2016, with the brightness of 2023 — a combination that suggests a very serious vintage indeed. Yields are dramatically low, the smallest crop since 1991, with production across the Gironde running around 15% below the five-year average. The quality is here. There simply isn't very much of it.
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