chateau pontet canet 5eme cru classe pauillac

Château Pontet Canet

Château Pontet Canet, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac, 2009

Name: Château Pontet Canet, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac
Brand: Château Pontet Canet
Price: 2042.46 GBP

98/100

Inside Bordeaux

100/100

The Wine Independent

95/100

Vinous

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2009
12x75cl
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£2,042.46

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Alfred Tesseron is one of the first proprietors in Bordeaux to have fully embraced the biodynamic movement. His outbuildings no longer house tractors; they have been converted back to stables for Reine, Babette and Kakou (his three working horses). Whether one believes that the lunar cycle or burying animal skulls has any impact on quality, one thing is for sure; Pontet Canet produces wine of at least second growth quality. Some would say that they are giving their neighbours at Mouton a run for their money. If you are looking for really smart Pauillac, you need look no further. The 2009 is possibly the best wine to date from this estate; it certainly rivals the monumental 2005. This has a beautiful nose of violets, crème de cassis, cranberries, fine tuned fruits and cedar. There is layer upon layer of gorgeously linear, delicious fruit, including waves of blueberries, red berries, cassis and cabernet fruits. The texture is wonderfully silky and refined with beautifully precise tannins. An exceptionally concentrated, pure, seamless and complete Pontet Canet.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

98/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Beautifully deep ruby colour, deliciously brambled fruits, cigar box, chocolate drops, mint leaf, confident and cradling tannins, this is a beautiful wine, easy and luxurious. The estate was in organic conversion at this point, not yet certified. Great quality. Jean-Michel Comme technical director.

drinking window 2025 - 2044

date of review 10/2024

100/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

Deep garnet colored, the 2009 Pontet-Canet prances out of the glass with exuberant notes of black cherry preserves, warm cassis, and boysenberries, followed by a powerful perfume of star anise, candied violets, fallen leaves, and crushed rocks. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is packed with decadently rich, sensuous black berry preserves and exotic spices flavors, backed by a velvety texture and seamless freshness, finishing with epic length. Stunning.

drinking window 2024 - 2054

date of review 03/2024

95/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2009 Pontet-Canet needs more encouragement from the glass than its peers, but it rewards the imbiber with seductive pure cassis and blackberry fruit, touches of autumn leaves and pencil box. The palate is medium-bodied with firm but fine tannin, a lovely bead of acidity. A harmonious, brown spice and smoke tinged finish fans out with confidence. You could open this now but it still has two more decades of drinking pleasure to give. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners’ 2009 Bordeaux tasting.

drinking window 2022 - 2042

date of review 03/2019

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