1998 Vieux Château Certan

Community Tasting Notes (163) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  3/20/2024 - zimmy07 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  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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  1/15/2024 - JJYoyo Likes this wine: 95 Points

  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.
  Score : 95. Relative to expectations: ++

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  1/14/2024 - Sticks62 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Wonderful. Buy more. I gave the other one to Dr. Monsher for Christmas

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  12/20/2023 - Richard P Howden Likes this wine: 94 Points

  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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  12/9/2023 - jc01 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  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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