Chateau Cheval Blanc

Château Cheval Blanc, which is translated into “white horse”, has a long, colorful history in Saint-Émilion that is traced back to 1832. That was the year the Ducasse family purchased land from the much larger estate of Château Figeac. Those vines became the genesis of what many people think is the best wine of Saint-Émilion, Château Cheval Blanc. Being located on the Pomerol border is part of the reason for the voluptuous quality of Cheval Blanc. The unique soils allow the 91.4-acre Cheval Blanc vineyard to express a distinctive style of Saint-Émilion as well as Bordeaux wine. The estate waits for perfect maturity and harvest parcel by parcel as ripeness in any estate is uneven, a result of soil and sun exposure.