Château Cheval Blanc

It was not until the 19th century that Château Cheval Blanc, a Saint-Emilion vineyard, acquired an important reputation, thanks to the purchase of the estate by Jean-Jacques Ducasse, the president of the court of Libourne, and Jean Laussac-Fourcaud, a wine merchant, who also happened to be his son-in-law. In the early 1870s, the latter, who had taken over the management of Château Cheval Blanc, acquired new parcels of vines, and at that time owned 37 hectares of vines. The estate did not develop any further for more than a century. This "wine of Figeac", as it was called at the beginning, quickly gained international recognition as Château Cheval Blanc received two gold medals, one at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1878 and the other at the one in Antwerp in 1886. For many, it was in the same category as the best Médoc First Growths. But it was in 1954 that Château Cheval Blanc reached the very prestigious rank of Premier Grand Cru Classé A, a rank that it can be proud to have kept after all these years. It is also part of the "Club des 9". It is the 9 best estates of Bordeaux: Pétrus, Châteaux Mouton-Rothschild, Latour, Margaux, Yquem, Lafitte Rothschild, Haut Brion and Ausone. Since 1998, Bernard Arnault and Baron Albert Frère are at the head of the Château and have inaugurated in 2011, a new winery of 6000 m2 turned to technology. It thus combines modernism with this new building and the history of the estate with the Château, classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The wines of Château Cheval Blanc should ideally be kept at a temperature of 14°C, in the darkness of a cellar, away from vibrations and with a humidity level between 70 and 75%.