{"id":2324,"date":"2016-09-27T09:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T08:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joanne.fr\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:58:14","slug":"cheval-blanc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanne.fr\/en\/2016\/09\/cheval-blanc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheval Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cheval Blanc launches white wine after eight-year experiment
\n\"Jane<\/p>\n

Jane Anson<\/p>\n

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September 14, 2016
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\nCh\u00e2teau Cheval Blanc<\/strong> will release its first white wine later this month, following nearly a decade of trials at the highly regarded Bordeaux estate. Jane Anson has tasted it…<\/p>\n

Cheval Blanc white wine: How it came about
\nThe vines come from plots that were formerly within Ch\u00e2teau La Tour du Pin Figeac (Moueix).
\nCheval Blanc\u2019s co-owners, luxury goods group LVMH and Albert Fr\u00e8re, bought the vines in 2006 after La Tour du Pin Figeac lost its classified ranking in St-Emilion.Experiments with white wine on a small area began in 2008. The Cheval Blanc team field-grafted three different clones of Sauvignon Blanc.<\/p>\n

In the most recent 2012 St-Emilion re-classification, 1.38 hectares of the vineyard was redrawn to be included within the footprint of Ch\u00e2teau Cheval Blanc itself.\u00a0That left 6.5 hectares for the white wine plan.\u00a0Cheval Blanc re-planted some parts of the vineyard and field-grafted others, giving some plants up to 40 years of age in terms of their rootstock.<\/p>\n

The vineyard is 80% Sauvignon Blanc and 20% Semillon. The estate plans to add Semillon to the wine from the 2018 vintage.<\/p>\n

\u2018We spent several years understanding what the terroir would give us and testing everything from clones to yeast strains for the vinification,\u2019 Cheval Blanc technical director Pierre-Olivier Clouet told Decanter.com.\u00a0\u2018It is very important to us that this is a classical Bordeaux white, tasting more of our terroir than any overtly varietal flavours.\u2019<\/p>\n

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