2024, Vieux Château Certan, POMEROLLast Year EP $408. 00 2024 blend is 71% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 9% Cabernet Sauvignon. A really classic VCC with such delicious, crunchy fruit, showing blackberries, blueberries, violets and dried spices. Medium bodied, vivid and lively, it has very fine tannins as well as energy and brilliance. So balanced and harmonious. 97 98 James Suckling. The 2024 Vieux Chteau Certan contains a higher proportion of Cabernet this year. This has plenty of

96 Jonathan Cristaldi

Egyptian musk and spices

Full perfume – high tones – large and spiced

boysenberry and light marmalade notes percolating through with time

The 2021 La Chapelle de La Mission Haut-Brion is laced with crushed flowers

It offers a lively core of fruit framed by refined yet slightly austere tannins

Nice purity and finesse

The succulent

its powdery tannins asserting themselves on the discreetly firm finish

all farmed organically

deep and rich

Stéphane Derenoncourt and Nicolas Thienpont produce this impressively concentrated wine from vines that are situated between Pavie and Troplong Mondot