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2024 Vieux Château Certan

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Pomerol

Bordeaux

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

71% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon

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Alexandre and Guillaume Thienpont have overseen some of the greatest vintages produced at this Pomerol estate in recent years. Take that from someone lucky enough to have tasted most of them.

“Mildew was high, but it was only on the leaves,” Thienpont Jr. told me. “We first noticed this during primeur week. We did more than the usual number of treatments, about 15 in total. It is a cool-climate vintage in a Cabernet style, traits that historically contradict each other. You had to wait for the ripeness and risk the rot, then be light in terms of extraction. We did not do any chaptalisation. The last time we did that was in 1984.

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