Peter Maude Fine Wines
2024, Vieux Château Certan, POMEROL
$326.60 inc. GST
Last Year EP $408.00-
2024 blend is 71% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 9% Cabernet Sauvignon.
A really classic VCC with such delicious, crunchy fruit, showing blackberries, blueberries, violets and dried spices. Medium-bodied, vivid and lively, it has very fine tannins as well as energy and brilliance. So balanced and harmonious.
97-98 James Suckling.
The 2024 Vieux Château Certan contains a higher proportion of Cabernet this year. This has plenty of freshness and more fruit than some other Pomerol cuvées. The palate is medium-bodied, but there is much more weight and density on the back palate than nearly all of its peers. Distinctly peppery and quite spicy in style, this is one of the few to transcend the strict limitations of the growing season. In some ways, it is an uncompromising VCC. Deeply impressive. 2032 - 2075
95-97 Neal Martin, Vinous.
Deep garnet-purple coloured. Swans out of the glass with gregarious notes of Morello cherries, juicy blackberries, and fresh raspberries, plus hints of lilac, pencil lead, and mossy tree bark. The medium-bodied palate delivers a sturdy structure of ripe, rounded tannins with seamless freshness and bags of red and black berry flavours, finishing with great length and plenty of minerally sparks.
94-96+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW.