1978 Vieux Château Certan

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  9/21/2023 - LTTC wrote:

  (WC) PNP
  Fragrant and refreshing nose with dried fruit, leaves and earth. Fully revolved and light.

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  9/17/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: 91 Points

  This example of the 78 Vieux Château Certan from a pristine bottle at Taillevent showed best right out of the gate with raspberry complementing smoke, old wood, truffle, mineral, and nut. The fruit faded relatively quickly but the spectrum of empyreumatic notes, the volume of the nose, and the evolution were interesting - and this paired so nicely with the veal. 91 at its debut

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  10/29/2021 - LB88 wrote: 93 Points

  PNP, lovely truffles, sour plums initially but with more air rounded out and became more balanced. This was beautiful after about 2 hours with nice fruit concentration and resolved tannins. Lovely pomerol.

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  11/3/2019 - Nutty08 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Wow great bottle. Much better than my last in 2015. Fill was perfect with well soaked cork. Youthful color. Phenomenal aromatics than lean a little green. Quite leafy and light. Fruit still very much alive and rather youthful. Awesome bottle.

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  11/15/2017 - dream Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Surprisingly quite vibrant with plenty of acidity and freshness to balance the lovely earthy, chocolaty flavors of a mature Pomerol. But the finish is becoming a bit high-toned suggesting this isn’t heading anywhere good. 90-

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