1998 Château Certan de May

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Tasting notes
Score 87/100 · Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider, Jan 2013

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91
91/100

Wine Spectator

86
86/100

Robert Parker

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86 points
Robert Parker
Score 86/100 · Drink 2001-2010, Robert Parker, Apr 2001

Tasted on three separate occasions in January, this wine performed significantly below the potential it revealed from barrel. One bottle was extremely vegetal as well as diluted. Essentially, this is a medium ruby/garnet-colored, lean effort lacking concentration. It reveals notes of herbs, saddle leather, spice box, red currants and cherries. Anticipated maturity: now-2010.

91 points
Wine Spectator
Score 91/100 · Wine Spectator

Milk chocolate with blackberry and cappuccino on the nose. Full-bodied, with a brown sugar and coffee flavor. Silky tannins. Long and caressing. Reminds me of old-style Pomerols from the '40s. This is a wine that has a lot of bottle variation, but this one is beautiful.¿'88/'98 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2008). Drink now.-James Suckling, Wine Spectator 2009

86 points
Robert Parker
Score 86/100 · Robert Parker

Tasted on three separate occasions in January, this wine performed significantly below the potential it revealed from barrel. One bottle was extremely vegetal as well as diluted. Essentially, this is a medium ruby/garnet-colored, lean effort lacking concentration. It reveals notes of herbs, saddle leather, spice box, red currants and cherries. Anticipated maturity: now-2010. Apr 2001, www.robertparker.com

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Château Certan de May
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Red

Under the law of Hong Kong, intoxicating liquor must not be sold or supplied to a minor in the course of business. 根據香港法律,不得在業務過程中,向未成年人售賣或供應令人醺醉的酒類 。
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