Chateau Cheval Blanc

Sotheby's to Auction 18L Bottle of 2006 Chateau Cheval Blanc

Attention wine connoiseurs and collectors, here's a truly fun and iconic bottle to add your collection: an 18L bottle of 2006 Chateau Cheval Blanc. Measuring 75cm tall and weighting in at 25 kg, it's huge when compared to a standard 750ml bottle and holds 144 glasses of wine. Not only is it 'phenomenally rare' to have such a large bottle of wine but also, apparently, it's rare for it to be a Bordeaux variety. For those interested it will be going up for auction as part of Sotheby's Finest and Rarest Wines and Vintage Port offerings this week and is expected to go for upwards of £3,600.

Via LuxuryLaunches

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LVMH Picks Up Shares In Chateau Cheval Blanc and Chateau Quinault

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A bit of shuffling has taken place in the wine world. French luxury conglomerate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton has made two large purchases picking up 50 percent stakes in two of France's most prestigious wineries. It has acquired half of the private company Cheval Blanc, which produces Chateau Cheval Blanc. LVMH has also bought half of La Tour du Pin, owner of the Chateau Quinault l'Enclos estate. The Wall Street Journal reports that both transactions were carried out with a subsidiary of Groupe Arnault, the holding company of LVMH Chief Executive Bernard Arnault. Both wineries were previously sold to Bernard Arnault, the chairman of LVMH and his associate Belgian businessman Albert Frère, Cheval Blanc in 1998 and Chateau Quinault in 2008, creating a block of Saint-Émilion properties.

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Chateau Cheval Blanc To Auction Off Rare Vintages

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France's esteemed Chateau Cheval Blanc is auctioning off rare vintages right from the cellar through Sotheby's next month. On June 17 at Sotheby's London, collectors can get their hands on over 1,000 bottles from nearly a century of vintages including the 1921, 1928, 1947 and 1949 being sold by the chateau. Each comes in an original wooden case. Older vintages (1900 to 1976 )were recently re-labelled and re-capsuled at Cheval Blanc. Some of the older bottles have been recorked and sometimes topped up with a wine of the same vintage over the past few decades. Serena Sutcliffe MW, International Head of Wine at Sotheby's, is quoted in the press release as sayiing: "We are honoured to be offering this unique collection of Cheval Blanc that has never before left the cellars at the Château. Cheval Blanc is a wine like no other. It has opulence, finesse and enormous originality."

The various lots includes a number of verticals including one of over 30 bottles covering 60 years from 1905
that is estimated at £15,000 – 20,000. Château Cheval Blanc dates from 1832 when the first part of what is now the Cheval Blanc estate was acquired from the Figeac estate. The won medals in the London and Paris International Exhibitions in 1862 and 1867 that are still displayed on the labels today. Château Cheval Blanc is one of only two St Emilion Châteaux to be awarded the top Class A classification. No matter what the economy may be doing, I suspect wine collectors will be coming out of the woodwork for this one.

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Chateau Cheval Blanc Goes For Broke With Wallet-Busting Prices

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Is the time when everyone is dropping prices the moment you should raise yours? The team behind the Chateau Cheval Blanc 2008 seems to think so. Decanter reports that the wine has gone on sale for around £3,500 a case far above the First Growths. Even the always-pricey Lafite Rothschild is hovering around the £2000 mark. The other Bordeaux have also been out a while, so basically Cheval Blanc released at double the price of the top wines. Admittedly, the Chateau Cheval Blanc is one of the best "brand names" in French wine and it did get 97 points from Robert Parker. Still, the price seems extreme. The Decanter article suggests that pricing the wine high was a way to position it as a super-luxury product on par with Ausone or Petrus. This seems to imply that the luxury wine consumer is thinking with his wallet and not his palate. Is raising the price the only way to let the public know that a chateau has a good vintage on its hands?

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