Château Certan de May Tasting Notes
Remarkably rich and concentrated. An enormous bouquet of spices, vanilla, oak, ripe rich black currants and plums. The wine macerates on the skins for almost one month, giving the wine its sensational concentration and black purple color. Vinified in stainless steel tanks and aged in 100% new oak barrels for 20-26 months.
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Wine Spectator
Muscular and solid, perhaps a bit chunky now, this big red shows toast, coffee and loam notes over a core of black cherry and fig flavors that struggle to emerge from gripping tannins. There's purity and depth that bode well. Best from 2014 through 2022. 1,750 cases made. —Thomas Matthews, 91 points
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Wine Advocate
A classic Certan de May, the 2008 reveals notes of cedarwood, roasted herbs, graphite, underbrush, and copious amounts of creme de cassis and sweet black cherries. Muscular and full-bodied with sensationally ripe tannins as well as purity, this large-scaled, backward, unevolved effort should turn out to be a long-lived wine. It is among the top half dozen or so efforts from this property in the last twenty years. —Robert Parker,
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Wine Enthusiast
Barrel sample. It may seem surprisingly light to begin with. But this wine has depth, richness, hinting at wood straining through the sweet fruit. It is firm, fresh, but properly tannic. 92 points
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