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1990 Vieux Château Certan

Red Bordeaux Blend

  • France
  • Bordeaux
  • Libournais
  • Pomerol
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Community Tasting Notes 99

  • dream Likes this wine: 95 points

    April 13, 2024 - Open and fully mature with a wonderful layered texture and loads of VCC complexity. Very buoyant and flavorful for a VCC with lovely flavors of bluish fruits and cigar box. Really stood out as being a special wine this evening. Commanderie BYOB Pomerol dinner.

  • Burgnick Likes this wine: 90 points

    October 30, 2023 - Aromatic nose but palate was a bit thin and monolithic.

  • Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 94 points

    July 9, 2023 - Firing. Leather, saddle, pencil shavings, blue fruit, plums, a hint of cigar. The texture is pure silk. Solid depth and just so much nuance. VCC is always one of my favorite producers and the 90 is in the zone.

  • Katzbrd Likes this wine: 96 points

    June 3, 2023 - This really impressed from the get go. Seemed to be at peak - fully resolved with perfumed nose, silky red fruits, and tertiary notes of cigar and cut grass emerging with time in the glass. On the sweeter side with red/black currants and cherry fruit profile. Light mouthfeel with ethereal power - dare I say almost burgundian. Lively and pronounced tannins in beautiful balance with the fruit profile. Really enjoyed this bottle.

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  • liber wrote: flawed

    April 1, 2023 - 8th of 12 and CORKED......grrrrrh!!!

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  • By Neal Martin
    Pages in the Photo Album: Vieux Château Certan 1928-2013 (Mar 2022), 3/1/2022 (link)

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  • By John Gilman
    Mar/Apr 2019, Issue #80, Another Look At the 1989 and 1990 Bordeaux - Twin Vintages Have Taken Different Paths With Age

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    8/7/2018 (link)

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  • By Julia Harding, MW
    10/27/2016 (link)

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    9/27/2016 (link)

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  • By John Gilman
    Jul/Aug 2012, Issue #40, The Annual Champagne and Sparkling Wine Report

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  • By John Gilman
    Jul/Aug 2009, Issue #22, Vieux Château Certan: A Legendary Pomerol Marching to its Own Beat

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Vinous

  • By Stephen Tanzer
    The 1990 Clarets...To Have and To Hold (Nov 1993), 11/1/1993 (link)

    (Vieux Château Certan Vieux Château Certan) Subscribe to see review text.

Rockss and Fruit

  • By Lyle Fass
    10/10/2007 (link)

    (Chateau Vieux Chateau Certan) The VCC was a puppy but a precocious puppy. The Cabernet Franc was really showing at this point in its life with herbal berry fruit on the nose and also on the palate. Had a grapey quality to the fruit which I really enjoyed but oh man was this wine young. What I loved about this wine was how understated, pretty and elegant it was. The finesse and delineation were amazing. This needs many years but when it gets going it should be a stunner.

Wine Definition

  • Vintage 1990
  • Type Red
  • Producer Vieux Château Certan
  • Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
  • Designation n/a
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • SubRegion Libournais
  • Appellation Pomerol

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  • Pending Delivery 4 (0%)
  • In Cellars 892 (60%)
  • Consumed 597 (40%)

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