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You can find this 1952 red wine for sale – Château Cheval Blanc 1952 – at award-winning Arden Fine Wines in London.
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Wine enthusiasts widely consider the 1952 Bordeaux vintage a high-quality year.
Notably, the weather during harvest time significantly helped the Right Bank (Pomerol and Saint-Émilion) outperform the Left Bank (Médoc and Graves).
While summer conditions were ideal for ripening, September brought cold, torrential rains.
Farmers harvested most Merlot before the heavy rains, resulting in ripe, elegant, and well-balanced wines.
Now over 70 years old, most bottles have reached full maturity.
The best examples from the Right Bank – like this 1952 red wine for sale – still offer remarkable aromatic charm.
1952 red wine for sale – Château Cheval Blanc 1952
While not as mythical as the famous 1947 vintage, the 1952 is considered one of the finest post-war years for the estate.
It has a complex bouquet of tobacco, cedar, forest floor, and dried dark fruits like raisins.
Cheval Blanc 1952 is noted for its concentrated, velvety texture.
On the palate, it is silky, velvety, and elegant, with concentrated fruit and firm yet resolved tannins.
The hot, sunny weather conducive to an early harvest created a very fine vintage of Château Cheval Blanc 1952.
Therefore the winemakers crafted the wine to be extremely elegant.
Thanks to this fine summer weather, the harvest began early.
The vineyard workers picked the grapes under clear blue skies.
Eventually, the average yield reached 31 hectolitres per hectare.
Then the fermentation went smoothly, prompting Madame Fourcaud-Laussac to say that Château Cheval Blanc 1952 was “a child easy to raise”.
Finally, the degree of alcohol measures 12.5%.
You can find this 1952 red wine for sale at award-winning Arden Fine Wines in London.
