Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: With 52 percent Cabernet Franc, this is a great Cheval Blanc, with amazing freshness, subtle length, and a wonderfully bright character. In the mouth, the wine is smooth, voluptuous, and long, with an exceptionally noble personality. 19

Michael Schuster: Effortlessly balanced, with a ravishing texture, fresh yet with no impression of acidity as such; long, sweet, graceful, effortless wine, not the richness/density/flesh of a “great” year (1998, 2009, 2010), but a real beauty and absolutely complete at its level. classic, fine Cheval—not big or powerful, but a perfect example of how to extract the best from this year’s challenging fruit; class, finesse, length. 2022–35+. 18.5