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1998 Chateau Vieux Ch Certan Pomerol
Vineyard: Chateau Vieux Ch Certan
Price: $84.99- $280.00
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Varietal: Merlot
Style: Red Wine
Region: France > Bordeaux
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WINEMAKER'S NOTE
"A fine offering, the 1998 has closed down, but there is no doubting its fabulous potential. The color is a dense purple. The wine reveals high tannin, huge body, and classy black fruits intermixed with minerals, spice box, cedar, and tobacco. A long, persistent, tannic finish gives this majestic effort a closed but formidable personality. Patience will be required. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2030." Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate 92 Points "A powerful, wonderfully toned red. Like a great jave...
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  • International Wine Cellar
    Bright ruby-red. Cassis, raspberry, cedar, lead pencil and spicy oak on the nose. Rich, sweet and deep, with firm acids giving grip and verve to the plum, raspberry, lead pencil and bitter chocolate flavors. Wonderfully concentrated, lively and very long. The yield here, according to Thienpont, was just 34 hectoliters per hectare.
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