Vieux Château Certan
Alexandre Thienpont, always a candid judge of vintages, was probably sick of telling visitors how difficult the 2003 harvest was by the time I stopped by to taste. "Our vines on normally early-maturing, well-drained soils were burnt out by the extreme heat of the summer, including our cabernet sauvignon. The roots of our vines go down two meters, but the water level was five or six meters down. Eight years out of ten we benefit by getting our fruit ripe earlier than St. Emilion or the Medoc, but not in 2003." The 2002 Vieux Chateau Certan will be 80% merlot and 20% franc. "We need the merlot to give the wine sucrosite," Thienpont explained, "because our cabernet franc always becomes a bit hard after a year in barrel." Ultimate production here will probably be only about 800 cases, down from a normal 4,000. The family's Le Pin parcel, on mostly gravel and sand, was even more scorched by heat and drought in 2003, and Thienpont expected to blend this juice into a generic Pomerol.
From The Annual Red Bordeaux Report (May 2004) by Stephen Tanzer
2001 Pomerol
Release Price: $102
Color: Red
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