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2004 Vieux Chateau Certan Bordeaux Blend
Bordeaux Blend: 6000ml
$849.99
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about this wine:
The wine boasts the smoothness, velvet, depth and density of the 1995 vintage.
The Vieux Château Certan has all the qualities required for laying down and magnificent ageing over the next twenty something years. The wine should be served in a decanter, earlier when young, later as it ages.
points awarded:
ST 93 WA 93 WS 9493 points,
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, January 2007
This stunning blend of 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc boasts a dense ruby/purple color along with a big, sweet bouquet of black cherries, licorice, roasted herbs, smoke, and cassis. Elegant, medium to full-bodied, pure flavors reveal moderately high tannin, but superb concentration and richness. Vieux Chateau Certan should be one of the longer-lived and most complex wines of the vintage. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2025. 93+
93 points,
Stephen Tanzer's IWC, May 2007
Good red-ruby. Highly complex, cabernet franc-dominated aromas of berries, dark chocolate, leather, tobacco and spices. Dense and fat but with a firm edge of acidity leavening the wine's layered texture. A lush and creamy wine with terrific spine. Classic VCC, finishing with outstanding spicy persistence. It's hard to find this style of right-bank Bordeaux today. I've had a letch for this wine since the outset.
94 points,
Wine Spectator, March 2007
Fabulous aromas of crushed berries, vanilla and chocolate, with pure fruit. Full-bodied, with silky tannins and a long, caressing finish. All in texture. A gorgeous and seductive young wine. This is 25 percent Cabernet Franc (normally it's 15 percent). Best after 2009. 4,585 cases made. -JS
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