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Thursday, July 15, 2021 - 2021 Bordeaux Tasting Trip; 7/12/2021-7/16/2021 (Bordeaux): A tasting in Bordeaux of 71 wines, some of the best I have ever had and others, umm, well were disappointing. If you read the Tasting story (and my grading history) I think it will do a much better job putting this in perspective.

Vieux Chateau Certan is not a Trophy wine that Americans buy to throw their junk on a table and show off (crude I know but reality), it’s a wine that really only knowledgeable wine drinkers are aware of and not well known to Americans. Further they do not advertise or market or do any publicly at all, they are farmers/winemakers and that’s what they know (FYI going forward same winemaker as Le Pin GT). If there was an ounce of marketing they would be priced 2x++ what it is today. First we tasted the 2020 second wine, La Gravette de Certan, then 2020 VCC, then 2010 and then the 2019 (requested a comparison after the fact). The suite of wines were outstanding, period- and they know it with a shy smile and a nod.

While the 2020 had the large price increase (like others) it made other much more expensive wines look like they were playing in little league baseball while VCC just won the championship. While I am not familiar with Petrus or Screaming Eagle (only familiar with the second wine) nor truly understand Burgundy, I can say without a doubt VCC was the wine of the trip and the best wine at the price- and one of the best wines we have ever had.

Holy mother of gd this is insane and can’t be for real. Nectar of the gds right here and now. As the thief started to pour the wine into our glasses, the bouquet slaps you playfully with incredible intensity and incomparable never ending perfume of flavor after flavor that never seems to end… we all snap our heads in attention and our mouth waters, as what it must be like for a crack addict, a burning desire to rip the glass from its location and ingest this magical elixir immediately while staying cool calm collected on the outside… Well that was what I intended anyway…

Once in the mouth, there is an explosion of flavors that hit you from all directions with the finesse of a professional ice skater and the artistry of Picasso/Monet/[fill in your artist of choice here] where you stare at the artwork and marvel at its vision and unspoken message. It has an incredible complexity providing a kaleidoscope of flavors that will be hard to be matched anywhere at any price, enhanced by the most incredible mouthfeel, which can only be described as silk velvet wrapped in full structure coating the mouth creating nearly a 90 second finish- yes really. Without an ability to even come close to expressing how fing good this is, I almost didn’t try as anything I wrote would not even come close… do you think I liked the wine? Nope absolutely in love with it.

If you have never heard of VCC, you will soon enough. If you haven’t tasted one, you are missing out on what wine is all about. If you haven’t had one in its peak drinking window, regardless if early or towards the end, I don’t think one truly has experienced all of what wine has to offer (while it may not be affordable, either save up and stop buying other wine or find a friend or pool some friends together and chip in to buy one- and if doing that, buy the 2010 as it’s firing on all cylinders and will only continue to get better every day- IMO (I purposefully left out humble). 98-100 Cheers!

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