Pomerol · vintage 2007
Vieux Château Certan 2007
Ageing potentialIt has great ageing potential and can start to be enjoyed in five to eight years, though it will continue to age well for a dozen years or so more in a good cellar.
Why this vintage
- The 2007 vintage in PomerolA cool, wet summer gave light, silky wines, with a short ageing potential.
- Ageing potentialIt has great ageing potential and can start to be enjoyed in five to eight years, though it will continue to age well for a dozen years or so more in a good cellar.
The 2007 vintage in Pomerol
Vintage benchmark: 82/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A cool, wet summer gave light, silky wines, with a short ageing potential.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pomerol. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
Today, after ageing fourteen months in new barrels, the 2007 vintage of Vieux Château Certan is one of fruit and subtlety.
The vintage
From the winter until the first signs of summer the weather pattern in 2007 was one of very mild temperatures and moderate rainfall. These weather conditions helped bring about an early bud-break in the vines in March and an even, homogeneous flowering at the end of May. After lovely sunny weather in the month of June, July and August were particularly cool and rainy. Fortunately, the pattern of very fine weather which set in from September 9th enabled the grapes to catch up on lost time and reach optimum levels of ripeness in ideal weather conditions. The Merlot and two Cabernets were harvested between September 17th and 29th. It is this remarkable balance that can be found in the blending proportions: 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Blend of the 2007 vintage
- 70 % Merlot
- 25 % Cabernet franc
- 5 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2007 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with merlot, cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Ageing
14 months in new barrels
Terroir
Établi sur 14 hectares d'un seul tenant, le vignoble de Vieux Château Certan est l’œuvre de plusieurs siècles de travail et de réflexion minutieuse. Ici, de l'orientation des vignes à la forte densité de plantation, de la répartition des cépages en fonction des sols, aux règles très strictes de taille et de palissage, tout est pensé pour obtenir les plus beaux raisins. Vieux Château Certan bénéficie de sols fertiles. Cela exige en retour une grande attention pour maitriser la vigueur, favoriser la maturité des raisins. Aujourd'hui, les vignes du domaine sont complantés à 60% de Merlot, 30% de Cabernet Franc et 10% de Cabernet sauvignon.
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