Cheval Blanc 1953 (750ML)

19.5 JR / 95 WA

Amazingly, this wine is still dark crimson, even if the rim is quite mature. The nose was wonderfully pure and jewelly in texture – so perfumed and refined!  This wine after all was made only six years after the miraculous 1947. This was a wine with a really refreshing line to it and is not at all heavy. Lovely life to it still. -Jancis Robinson

In the fifties, the greatest vintage is the 1953. I am sure this wine has been fully mature for at least 15-20 years. Nevertheless, it has held its magic for that considerable period, and is still the most fragrant, and from an aromatic perspective, the most compelling Cheval Blanc I have ever tasted. Perhaps the 1982 will turn out to be this profoundly perfumed. It is not a blockbuster, but is incredibly seductive, and so soft and silky. -Robert M. Parker, Jr., The Wine Advocate