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2000 Vieux Chateau Certan

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RATINGS

95Robert M. Parker Jr.

A gorgeous wine of grace, elegance,and power..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

95Wine Spectator

Dark and brooding, with chocolate, game and berry aromas. Full-bodied and very silky, with refined tannins and a long, lingering finish. Winemaker Alexandre Thienpont crafts his wine like a fine watchmaker.

93Stephen Tanzer

...aromas of raspberry, plum, espresso, mocha and game. Silky, lush and thick...compelling flavors of boysenberry, bitter cherry and dark chocolate. Complex, smoky, lively wine, finishing with...lovely subtle persistence.

17.5Jancis Robinson

Ripe fruit and fully melded tannins.

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Pomerol

Pomerol is the smallest of Bordeaux’s red wine producing regions, with only about 2,000 acres of vineyards. Located on the east side of the Dordogne River, it is one of the so-called “right bank” appellations and therefore planted primarily to Merlot. Pomerol is unique in Bordeaux in that it is the only district never to have been rated in a classification system. Some historians think Pomerol’s location on the right bank made it unattractive to Bordeaux-based wine traders, who had plenty of wine from Medoc and Graves to export to England and northern Europe. Since ranking estates was essentially a marketing ploy to help brokers sell wine, ranking an area where they did little business held no interest for them. Pomerol didn’t get much attention from the international wine community until the 1960s, when Jean-Pierre Moueix, an entrepreneurial wine merchant, started buying some of Pomerol’s best estates and exporting the wines. Today the influential Moueix family owns Pomerol’s most famous estate, Château Pétrus, along with numerous other Pomerol estates. Pomerol wines, primarily Merlot blended with small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, are considered softer and less tannic than left bank Bordeaux.