Colin Hay om:
Chateau Certan de May
(Pomerol; 65% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon; 14% ABV; tasted at Bélair Monange). Shimmeringly beautiful and supremely refined, this is so much more gracious than it used to be. Certan de May is a wine whose terroir and planting helps greatly in a vintage like this, and whose natural ingredients respond so well to the more refined winemaking and gentle extraction now practised by the leading properties. I love the Cabernet signature aromatically, above all the gentle florality and the purity of the cool damson, blackberry and blueberry fruit that it brings. Succulent, juicy and infinitely more refined and accessible than it was until recently at this stage. Brilliantly limpid and luminous above all. A coup de coeur.