2000 Vieux Ch. Certan
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Description
Vieux Ch. Certan-2000-750ml-PCCPNY-Red-Bordeaux-France
Vieux Ch. Certan-2000-750ml-PCCPNY-Red-Bordeaux-France
Tasting Notes
| Robert Parker 95 | |
| The dense ruby/purple-colored, tight 2000 gradually reveals notes of oak, tapenade, blackberries, spice box, licorice, and vanilla. Deep, medium to full-bodied, and powerful, with superb purity, low acidity, and high tannin, this backward, concentrated Vieux Chateau Certan falls just short of rivaling the sensational 1998. | |
| Robert Parker 95 | |
| A gorgeous wine of grace, elegance, and power, this youthful 2000 will benefit from another five years of cellaring. It appears to have 25 more years of life ahead of it. A deep ruby/purple color is just beginning to lighten at the edges. The bouquet offers up scents of cedar wood, melted licorice, black currants, blackberries, caramel, and mocha. Medium to full-bodied, elegant, and pure with low acidity as well as formidable tannins in the long finish, the 2000 should rival vintages such as 2005, 2006, and 2009. June 2010 | |
| Neil Martin, Wine Journal, eRobert Parker 96 | |
| Tasted blind at Bordeaux Index?s 2000 tasting in London. This has a very pure, very sensuous nose with red-berried fruit, wild strawberry, raspberry, a touch of marmalade and quince in the background. Very good definition with a faint hint of iodine developing with time. The palate is full-bodied, very pure and well defined, yet so linear at this point. This is a wine that retains its foetal position but what a future in store! It is so smooth and harmonious towards the elegant, feminine finish. Drink 2028-2040. Tasted March 2010. |