2010 Vieux Château Certan

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  5/12/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 97 Points

  Parker 100 Pointer Lunch, tasted blind: Exuberant rich fruit, lots of earthy elements as well, aristocratic, like the Latour in the earlier flight. Right bank was my guess. Polished palate, a touch lactic. Menthol, lovely dry extract. Very young still.

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  5/11/2024 - Tschudix wrote: 93 Points

  100 Point Parker Dinner (Weinkongress): Blind tasting. No detailed notes.
  My Ranking: 5 (shared) out of 9 / Group Ranking: 6 out of 9

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  5/11/2024 - sirpat00 wrote: 96 Points

  Part of a small BYO 100 Parker point blind tasting. Nicely extracted, sweet and sugar-coated fruit of red and blue berries along with leather, sweet oak, spice and mineral notes. Also some lactic notes in the mix as well as dried herbs. Plush and extracted, almost Napa-esque, but with fresh acids. Round but present and slightly grainy tannin, but the palate was still in good balance overall with a sexy, spicy finish. Over the last 4 years this has proven an incredibly consistent top-performer. But it remains early days and unless you have sufficient quantities in the cellar, best to keep hands off for another 5 years.

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  3/31/2024 - J_Smallwood Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Air is your friend if you open one of these (at least 6 if not 12 hours of decanting I would recommend), and even then, still painfully young. Celebrating a new job for a friend we opened this….objectively a great wine, but left me wanting a bit more from it which I’m sure will just show better in several more years (or decades). An understated nose of raspberry, briar patch, and vine smoke that directly translates to palate, full of dark berry fruits framed by raspberry, green tobacco, wispy smoke notes, dark chocolate, and crushed stones. There is a lot of density packed into the wine - next to a few burgs, this wine took more “effort” to drink given its tannic structure and density at this stage, but nonetheless a fantastic wine. At the price point, I think there are better options out there, but still a very enjoyable and impressive wine. (++ upside)

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  3/6/2024 - Cailles wrote: 96 Points

  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.

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