17 JR Served blind alongside Petrus 1975. At first the wine seemed a bit too old and a bit decayed with a strong rusty nails character but in the glass it actually cleaned up a bit and there was the vestige of old glory. A...
97 RP / 18 JR This is undisputably the wine of the vintage, a year that was clearly over-exposed and over-rated, largely because it was better than the four vintages that preceded it. However, it was not terribly exciting...
98 RP One of the best wines of the vintage as well as the most concentrated and tannic Petrus of the seventies, the 1975 is a blockbuster wine, opulently rich, still broodingly dark in color, and massive. This wine has...
93 VM Bottles of 1975 Vieux Château Certan have been a little inconsistent over the years, although when it is on form it can represent the high point of the decade. Plump black plum on the nose with a distinctive...