2004 Vieux Château Certan Pomerol - 3x150cl
06A4VIEUM3PK _ 2004 - Vieux Château Certan Pomerol - 3x150cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Vieux Château Certan
  • Region Pomerol
  • Drinking 2012 - 2022
  • Case size 3x150cl
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2004 - Vieux Château Certan Pomerol - 3x150cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Vieux Château Certan
  • Region Pomerol
  • Drinking 2012 - 2022
  • Case size 3x150cl
  • Available Now
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Case price: £1,069.24 Duty Paid inc VAT
Equivalent Bottle Price: £356.41 Duty Paid inc VAT
Case price: £875.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis, May 2005, Score: -

    The team at Vieux Chateau Certan carried out 4 green harvests in 2004 despite the venerable age of this fabulous estate's vines. We cannot better James Suckling's note which says it all:"This is pure cashmere on the palate. Full-bodied, with incredibly long, silky tannins. An absolute joy to taste. In fact, it is amazing for the vintage. Seductive with a capital "S." This evokes the excellent 2000. The Cabernet Franc made this wine magic. One of the greatest young Vieux-Château-Certans I have ever tasted." Drink 2012-2025

  • Neal Martin, January 2020, Score: 93

    The 2004 Vieux Château Certan is an important one in my opinion, since it is the first whereby Alexandre Thienpont surpasses the limitations of the growing season, producing one of the best Right Bank wines you will find. Now beginning to show signs of ageing on the rim, it has an intense, more Merlot driven bouquet with wild strawberry, black truffle, hints of burnt toast and truffle. The tannins appear to be softening on the palate that is not as concentrated as the 2005 or 2009 of course, but there is admirable body and density here with some sinew towards the finish that will mellow with time. The aftertaste offers hints of sage and rosemary, completely a very satisfying 2004 Pomerol that should give a couple of decade’s drinking pleasure. Tasted at the Wine Source VCC dinner at The Square. 2022-2040

  • Robert Parker, June 2007, Score: 93

    This stunning blend of 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc boasts a dense ruby/purple color along with a big, sweet bouquet of black cherries, licorice, roasted herbs, smoke, and cassis. Elegant, medium to full-bodied, pure flavors reveal moderately high tannin, but superb concentration and richness. Vieux Chateau Certan should be one of the longer-lived and most complex wines of the vintage. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2025.

  • Robert Parker, June 2006, Score: 90-93

    Proprietor Alexandre Thienpont believes the 2004 Vieux Chateau Certan resembles the 1988. A blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc, it is a classically-styled, dark plum/purple-hued effort exhibiting sweet scents of black cherries, plums, truffles, licorice, and herbs. With good acidity, a broad, medium-bodied attack, and excellent ripeness as well as purity, this complex, racy claret should be consumed between 2007-2018 Made from an unusual blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc, this is a powerful yet classic effort for the vintage. Its dark plum/ruby color is accompanied by sweet scents of melted licorice, Provencal herbs, black currants, cherries, incense, and subtle new oak. Medium-bodied with good underlying acidity, a noble character, and an elegant, long, moderately tannic, complex finish, it should be at its finest between 2010-2020

  • Stephen Tanzer, May 2007, Score: 93

    (70% merlot and 30% cabernet franc) Good red-ruby. Highly complex, cabernet franc-dominated aromas of berries, dark chocolate, leather, tobacco and spices. Dense and fat but with a firm edge of acidity leavening the wine's layered texture. A lush and creamy wine with terrific spine. Classic VCC, finishing with outstanding spicy persistence. It's hard to find this style of right-bank Bordeaux today. I've had a letch for this wine since the outset.

Producer

Vieux Château Certan

What is there not to like about this château and its amiable owner, Alexandre Thienpont? Sensitive,reflective and wonderfully humble, he is of the school who believes that wine makes itself. He is just the assistant who helps it along the way. And the wine certainly seems to be spectacular year after year.

Region

Pomerol

The small sub-region of Pomerol is situated north-east of the industrious city of Libourne. Pomerol's soils are predominately iron-rich clay with a smattering of gravel that produce wines with extraordinary power and depth. As a result of this clay-dominance, it has the highest percentage of Merlot planted in all of Bordeaux. Certain châteaux are produced exclusively from this grape, but most incorporate smaller quantities of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc as well. Despite its hefty (if not exclusive) proportion of Merlot, many people think of wines from this region as separate entities. As one wine aficionado stated recently, "It's not Merlot. It's Pomerol." Despite the region's small size, Pomerol contains some of the world's most sought after (and expensive) wines including Pétrus, Le Pin, Lafleur, l'Evangile and Vieux Château Certan. Unlike other Bordelais subregions, there is no system of classification. The châteaux are traded on reputation alone.

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