Vieux-Château-Certan, Pomerol

Vieux Château Certan is an icon of the Right Bank, driving secondary-market activity through its chiselled, intellectual energy and legendary structural stamina. Under Alexandre Thienpont’s precise direction, VCC has evolved from the plush, hyper-opulent, merlot-dominated paradigm often associated with modern Pomerol. Sourced from the estate’s historic clay-and-gravel core, the unusually high percentage of cabernet franc and cabernet sauvignon gives the wine Left Bank allusions and delivers a hyper-polished canvas where an intensely perfume-driven, multi-layered texture is pinned down by a piercing, savoury mineral spine with multi-decade cellar potential.