Vieux Château Certan combines savoir-faire with exceptional soils. Coming mainly from the vineyard’s oldest vines, Vieux Château Certan is every year a blend of the most excellent lots produced at the estate.
The brilliance of the wine’s hue, the richness of its aromas and the subtlety of its flavour bring it inimitable style.
The wines of Vieux Château Certan possess natural concentration and require a few years’ cellaring before the first bottles can be opened. As with the greatest Bordeaux wines.
The 2021 Vieux Château Certan offers multiple facets: it shows a balance between freshness and roundness, fruit character and length of flavour. From winter to the end of March, the first part of the 2021 growing season was marked by mild temperatures and frequent rainfall, which brought about a fast budding of the vines.
Once the threat of April frosts had passed, a full flowering and a managed healthy vine canopy from spring till the beginning of summer ensured that solid foundations for the vintage had been laid down.The summer continued in temperate and frequently wet weather conditions up till the middle of August. Four glorious weeks of hot, dry and sunny weather then set in. Thank to these favourable conditions, the Merlot was superbly balanced, supple and perfumed. It brings uplift and roundness to the blend.
The Cabernet Franc displayed aromatic intensity and its hallmark character. It shows delicacy, length of flavour and breed and gives a shimmering aspect to the wine. Finally, the Cabernet Sauvignon, brings a floral finishing touch and added structure.
Enhancing the natural expression of the grapes
It’s my conviction that the best wines are those that are the most natural ones –wines that are subject to as little technical intervention as possible.
They should be the most genuine and faithful expression of what nature has given us.
Following on from my father, and now aided by Guillaume, my son, I have perpetuated the family line, exercising my highest standards of work in the service of a wine, the style of which delights connoisseurs all over the world.
«The wines of Vieux Château Certan have their own character ; they have their own story to tell -not ours.»
Alexandre Thienpont
