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Red
1998 Vieux Château Certan
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- Bordeaux
- Libournais
- Pomerol
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Community Tasting Notes 163
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zimmy07 Likes this wine: 95 points
March 20, 2024 - wow!!! silky, seductive, and lush. Sexy AF with violets, rose petals, dark fruits and mocha... This has decades left, decanted 5+ hours and needed more. a '99 Mondavi Reserve went off and challenged for WOTN, but no way to get around this is a world class wine... I would hold for another 5+ years but can be ripped now
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JJYoyo Likes this wine: 95 points
January 15, 2024 - 3hr decant and that is still recommended. This bottle sang a lot more than the companion bottle we had a few months ago. Tons of cassis, tobacco, espresso, graphite, bing cherry. Lots of very fine, chewy tannins. A light amount of silty sediment in the bottle. Refined and smooth, gentlemanly in a way.
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Sticks62 Likes this wine: 97 points
January 14, 2024 - Wonderful. Buy more. I gave the other one to Dr. Monsher for Christmas
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Richard P Howden Likes this wine: 94 points
December 20, 2023 - Decanted for 30 minutes or so. At first the nose was all about strawberry, violets, cherries, boysenberries and cassis. The palate was full of sweet cherry and more cassis, with a long bracing finish. Excellent balance. I was a little surprised at the inner sweetness of the palate - not utterly dry the way a lot of other red wines seem to be made. Over the course of the meal the nose evolved to be more in the tobacco cassis spectrum, while the palate beautifully balanced a variety of rich courses, especially complementary to the pork, no surprise. Overall a wonderful classy Pomerol, still youthful but starting to show some nice aged character.
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jc01 Likes this wine: 94 points
December 9, 2023 - Unusual for a VCC, this is 90% merlot. It’s very rounded and didn’t need a long decant to show its stuff. Very smooth and quite sappy it’s a beautiful wine with a long finish.
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Pro Reviews 8
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By John Gilman
Mar/Apr 2022, Issue #98, The Stunning 1998 Vintage On Bordeaux’s Right Bank(Vieux-Château-Certan (Pomerol)) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Neal Martin
Pages in the Photo Album: Vieux Château Certan 1928-2013 (Mar 2022), 3/1/2022 (link)(Vieux Château Certan Vieux Château Certan Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
Jul/Aug 2009, Issue #22, Vieux Château Certan: A Legendary Pomerol Marching to its Own Beat(Vieux Château Certan) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
3/11/2006 (link)(Vieux Château Certan Pomerol Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
May/June 2000, IWC Issue #90 (link)(Vieux Chateau Certan Pomerol) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
May/June 1999, IWC Issue #84 (link)(Vieux Chateau Certan Pomerol) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Richard Jennings
10/24/2015 (link) 91 points(Vieux Château Certan) Very dark red violet color; tart black currant, blackberry nose; tasty, maturing, black currant, black fig, black cherry palate; medium-plus finish 91+ points
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By Richard Jennings
8/28/2005 (link) 91 points(Vieux Château Certan) Faint caramel oak nose; tight, red cherry, plum palate, opens up a lot after an hour in the glass; medium finish
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1998
- 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 004289000096, 400004960186
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 130 (4%)
- In Cellars 1,998 (61%)
- Consumed 1,131 (35%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
Braised lamb shoulder at Amali in NYC, DuckWho Likes This Wine
98% Like It 54 votes
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- ProducerVieux Château Certan
- VarietyRed Bordeaux Blend
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- SubRegionLibournais
- AppellationPomerol
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