2022 Vieux Château Certan - 3er OHK
Weinart: Rotwein
Rebsorte: 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot
Land: Frankreich
Region: Bordeaux
Appellation: Pomerol
Ausbau: Barrique/ Holzfass
Stilistik: komplex, würzig, vielschichtig
Geschmacksrichtung: trocken
Alkoholgehalt: 14,4% Vol.
Trinktemperatur: 15-18°C
Grimm 98-99 /100
Suckling 98-99 /100
Vinous 98-100 /100
Dunnuck 98-100 /100
Perrotti-Brown 98-100 /100
Wine Advocate 97-99 /100
Allergene: Sulfite, Abfüllerinformation
385,00 €*
Inhalt: 0.75 Liter (513,33 €* / 1 Liter)
Subskription 2022: Die Auslieferung erfolgt voraussichtlich im Herbst 2025.
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Produktnummer: 14900
Michael Grimm
98-99 POINTS
"...extrem feine und komplexe Nase, feine Tabaknote, feine florale Noten, Schoko, ganz große Struktur, ganz große Frische, Süße am Gaumen, die Balance ist grandios, langes Schoko-Finish. Alexandre Thienpont: Merlot und Cab Franc waren so konzentriert, dass man Cab Sauvignon aus jüngeren Weinbergen mit in den Blend komponierte. Der vielleicht beste VCC seit meiner 1. Primeurverkostung 1994." (04/2023)
Vinous
98-100 POINTS
The 2022 Vieux Château Certan is a wine of tremendous sophistication and polish. I expected to see a more opulent VCC, but the 2022 is surprisingly delicate and nuanced. The blend is 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, which means all the Cabernets at the château were used in Grand Vin. Perhaps that explains the wine’s construction, favoring length, persistence and aromatics more than size. Crème de cassis, lavender, spice and licorice hints linger on the super-expressive finish. There’s really not much more to say except that the 2022 is magical. “Real heat started in June," explained Alexandre Thienpont. “We had 15mm of rain over two days in mid-August that really helped. Even so, yields were 35 hectoliters per hectare, so lower than 2020. Berries weighed less athan a gram and juice yields were low.”
- Antonio Galloni (04/2023)
James Suckling
98-99 POINTS
The freshness and dynamic sense to the wine is so surprising. Minerally and salty. It's full yet racy. Black ink and oyster shell. Excellent length. 25% cabernet franc, 5% cabernet sauvignon and the rest, merlot. (2023)
Jeb Dunnuck
98-100 POINTS
One of the wines of the vintage, without a doubt, the 2022 Vieux Château Certan comes from healthy yields of 38 hectoliters per hectare and is 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Jaw-droppingly good in every sense, its deep purple hue is followed by a massive array of black cherries, violets, red plums, chocolate, and violets. This carries to a full-bodied Pomerol with a voluptuously layered mouthfeel, perfect tannins, and a great, great finish. I never find Vieux Château Certan to have the overt power and structure of Petrus, or the feminine elegance of Conseillante, but it's unrivaled in its texture, seamlessness, and purity. If this doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what will. And I'll be a buyer. (05/2023)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown
98-100 POINTS
A blend of 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon with a yield of 35 hl/ha, the 2022 Vieux Chateau Certan is deep garnet-purple in color. After a swirl or two, notes of black cherry preserves, black raspberries, and juicy black plums rocket out of the glass, followed by suggestions of star anise, lilacs, rose oil, and truffles with a waft of fertile loam. The full-bodied palate slowly grows in the mouth with layers of emerging mineral, floral, and exotic spice nuances intertwined with concentrated black fruits, supported by super-plush tannins and perfectly knit freshness, culminating in a very long-lasting firework display of floral and spice notes. pH 3.78.(05/2023)
Parker – Wine Advocate
97-99 POINTS
A blend of 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon (very similar to the 2019), the 2022 Vieux Château Certan is a magical wine of exemplary harmony and balance. Offering up complex aromas of dark berries and cherries mingled with notions of exotic spices, licorice, iris, violets and loamy soil, it's full-bodied, supple and seamless, its sweet structuring tannins entirely concealed by a multidimensional core of pure, vibrant fruit. This sensual, perfumed Pomerol is likely to rank alongside the 2019 and 2016 in the pantheon of recent Vieux Château Certan vintages.
- William Kelley (04/2023)
Vieux Château Certan