2011 Ch Pontet-Canet 5ème Cru, Pauillac
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Deep garnet in color, the 2011 Pontet-Canet comes bounding out of the glass with exuberant notes of redcurrant jelly, warm cassis and blackberry pie plus touches of dried mint, mocha, smoked meats and yeast extract with a waft of pencil lead. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has bags of energy with lively red and black fruits and compelling mineral accents, finishing long with a provocative lift.
93 points LPB robertparker.com
A wine with lots of ripe berries, verging on dried fruits. Full and chewy with ripe, round, chewy tannins. It needs lots of bottle age. A wine of steel. From biodynamically grown grapes, as always. Better than from barrel. Try in 2018.
95 points jamessuckling.com
Chateau Pontet-Canet produces what many people call the most popular and in-demand Bordeaux wine of the appellation.
Pontet-Canet is a Bordeaux powerful wine. It’s concentrated, balanced, tannic and charming as well.The recent success is due to the current management of the estate by Alfred Tesseron who is helped by the director, Jean-Michel Comme.
As was the custom of the day, Chateau Pontet-Canet found the inspiration for its name from its lineage. The estate took the first part of its name from a former owner, who was also the royal governor of the Medoc, Jean-François de Pontet. Like many owners during the early 18th century, Pontet enlarged his Bordeaux vineyards with purchases of additional Pauillac vineyards.
Several years after Pontet’s death, his descendants continued to buy Pauillac vineyard land, including a famous section from the Canet area. Once the combination of his name and the land were put together Pontet-Canet became and remained one of the largest Bordeaux wine producing estates in the entire appellation.
Pontet Canet was granted Fifth Growth status in the 1855 classification. The most important Bordeaux negociants of the day, Herman Cruse, purchased the estate in 1865. The Cruse family owned Pontet-Canet for 110 years, until another negociant, Guy Tesseron, acquired it in 1975. In fact, Chateau Pontet-Canet has only belonged to three families in over two centuries. That is quite a rarity in Bordeaux!
Since Alfred Tesseron took over running the estate in 1994, the property has continued to improve year after year. Even though Pontet is only a Fifth Growth, they are producing wines at the level of the best Second Growths and in some vintages, as good as the Firsts. Based on the current prices for the wines of Pontet-Canet, the market agrees.
Situated next to Mouton Rothschild, Tesseron has inspired others on both banks to work more organically as well as consider biodynamic farming. To illustrate this point, in 2010, Chateau Pontet-Canet became the first major Bordeaux wine producer to earn the official Agence Bio (AB) organic certification.
The 81 hectare vineyard of Pontet-Canet is planted to 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. This represents a small shift in the vineyard to more Cabernet Sauvignon that took place in 2009. The vineyard has a terroir of deep gravel with clay and limestone soils. The vineyard of Chateau Pontet-Canet is almost one large block of vines that can be divided into two main parcels. Each of those parcels are quite different as you find more Cabernet Sauvignon planted closer to the chateau, not far from Mouton Rothschild. The other parcel features more Merlot and is located closer to the river.
| Product/Service Sold Out | No |
|---|---|
| En Primeur | No |
| New Arrivals | No |
| Wine Type | Red Wine |
| Wine Style | Traditional |
| Country | France |
| Region | Pauillac |
| Varietals | Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot |
| Vintage | 2011 |
| Bottle Size | 750ml |
| Wine Points | 95 |
| ABV Percent | 12.5% |
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