Vieux Château Certan is one of the oldest known growths in Pomerol. It was founded at the beginning of the 16th century when the Demay family arrived from Scotland to settle there. Georges Thienpont, a Flemish wine merchant, bought Vieux Château Certan with his wife Josephine in the spring of 1924.

With a surface area of 14 hectares (35 acres) planted in one single block, the Vieux Château Certan vineyard is made up of 23 plots, each of them individually managed according to soil type, grape variety planted, and age of vines. The average age of the vines is over 50 years. The soils are subtly varied and contain a very clayey part planted mainly with Merlot (70%), a gravel-clay part planted with Cabernet Franc (25%) and a very gravelly part planted with Cabernet Sauvignon (5%).

Today it is George’s great grandson Guillaume who vinifies the wine. Vieux Château Certan has reached its golden age and is recognised the world over for its purity, elegance and fruity character, typical of the supple, complex style of the Pomerol plateau.