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2010 Vieux Château Certan

Red Bordeaux Blend

  • France
  • Bordeaux
  • Libournais
  • Pomerol
Drink between 2023 - 2049 (Edit)
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Community Tasting Notes 67

  • Cailles wrote: 96 points

    March 6, 2024 - Tasted blind. Occasionally, a wine truly lives up to its esteemed reputation. This wine embodies the hallmark of a legendary wine, boasting an extraordinary depth, precision, and aromatic intensity, paired with absolute elegance and finesse. VCC successfully navigates the common pitfalls seen in many 2009/10s, presenting no signs of over-ripeness or excessive extraction. While it is undeniably open and well-balanced, there remains a slight untamed quality. However, in 20 years, this could very well mature into a perfect wine.

    TN: Intense, expressive nose with a flurry of red and darker berries in all shapes and forms. A slight earthiness underneath. On the palate the same fruit intensity, mostly in the red spectrum and from candied raspberries to the freshest, purest strawberries. Layers of minerality, herbs, spices, earthy notes. Incredibly complex despite its youth and with an almost perfect precision. Ultra-fine tannin structure with a high but perfectly-integrated acidity and a wonderful airy texture. On the downside: it is so packed and so intense, that still another decade or two are needed for the wine to be truly enjoyed for more than one glass and out of intellectual curiosity.

    Decanting: Decanted for roughly one hour, could have used even a bit more air.

  • MN Wine Junkie wrote: 96 points

    February 28, 2024 - Tasting in Miami (Ken's Castle): Opened and let sit for an hour, then followed it for the next 2 hours.

    Is it young? Of course, but these are so good, and I am so weak, that I have a hard time keeping my hands off these. Always enjoyable, and definitely good enough now that I don't even come close to feeling guilty for popping one open!

    Nose shows plenty of florals, cherry and cocoa with some violets and spice. Palate follows suit with chocolate covered cherries, some violets, some spice, and notes of earth, tobacco and anise. Stunning, as always! 96-96+ and will still get better!

  • MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 97 points

    February 19, 2024 - Pulled this bottle during a dinner tasting and it felt completely out of place amongst some of the great Rhones we had already opened.

    VCC felt a bit heavy but yet refined enough to know it was a great bottle but it was the outlier. I quickly recorked and replaced it with a 2011 St Joe that was absolutely a conversation piece served blind and was mistaken for S. African Grenache (Soldaat)

    After 24 and 36 the VCC was revisited and finished. A bit of energy was missing which might have been left on the table between hours 2-24. Either way no regrets opening one of my favorite right bank wines.

    Drink or hold.

    97

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  • sirpat00 wrote: 97 points

    February 5, 2024 - Decanted 1h. Intense and concentrated fruit of cherry and black currant. Iodine minerality, salad seasoning and sweet spice of vanilla beans, mocha and coffee beans. Hints of leather and barnyard. Outstandingly layered and precise nose. Grippy tannin, soft but perfectly ripe and matching the fresh acidity. Long and vibrating finish. This is a muscular wine with astonishing complexity that will easily age for another couple of decades before peaking!

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  • MN Wine Junkie Likes this wine: 96 points

    December 23, 2023 - Meeting Delphine's Family (Scott and Amy's House): PnP (30 mins of slo-O) - but let it get about 30 mins of additional air in the glass. What can I say, I love VCC! This is still young and primary, but the fruit is remarkable and certainly still at the forefront of this wine. Lots of cherry (dark and red) with notes of pomegranate and some tertiary flavors of earth, leather and forest floor lurking in the background. This wine is still all about the purity of fruit. An easy drinker and crowd pleasing wine. Very different from the 2004 Lafleur that preceded it, but scored similarly for different reasons. Glad I have a few of these as they will bring years of enjoyment! Solid 96 tonight!

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  • June 2011, Issue #32 (link)

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  • By John Gilman
    Mar/Apr 2011, Issue #32, The 2010 Bordeaux Vintage: Very Ripe, Very Tannic and With Just A Few Great Successes

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Wine Definition

  • Vintage 2010
  • Type Red
  • Producer Vieux Château Certan
  • Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
  • Designation n/a
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • SubRegion Libournais
  • Appellation Pomerol
  • UPC Codes 2064321086004, 3258691394770, 3364420055505, 338082539416, 3540437501864, 4000038919790, 400004960186

Community Holdings

  • Pending Delivery 359 (6%)
  • In Cellars 4,685 (81%)
  • Consumed 765 (13%)

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Community Recommendations

brisket, dark meat poultry, game, lamb, Red meat, roast beef, roast beef w/ horseradish

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