Château Pontet Canet, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac, 2015

Name: Château Pontet Canet, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac
Brand: Château Pontet Canet
Price: 1003.07 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

Justine and Melanie Tesseron welcomed us to the immaculate Pontet Canet. Bordeaux's pioneering, biodynamically farmed estate hit back last year with a tremendous wine. The 2015 is every bit as good. Produced from 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot aged in 50% new oak, 35% amphora and 15% one year old new barrels. This is a wonderfully aromatic and seductive example. Violets and sweet purple fruits leap from the glass. The palate continues the luxurious theme with waves of lavish dark damson liqueur and cassis fruit interspersed with pure cranberries and noble mineral notes. This is very sleek and beautiful with chiselled tannins coated in velvety blackcurrant flavours. There is a great sense of tension; a balance of voluptuous ripe fruit, serious tannins and mouth-watering acidity. Very smart!

critic reviews

93/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2015 Pontet Canet has a lovely bouquet with a mixture of red and black fruit, cedar and subtle tobacco scents. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy ripe tannins, smooth texture and a sheen of classy new oak with a dab of spice that enlivens the finish. The 2015 is primal for being ten years old—this is one I would keep cellared. It was tasted blind at the 2015 Bordeaux Ten-Year-On tasting.

DRINKING WINDOW 2029 - 2055

date of review 06/2025

97/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

A blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2015 Pontet-Canet is deep garnet-purple colored. It rolls effortlessly out of the glass with notes of blackcurrant pastilles, raspberry coulis, and blueberry compote, plus suggestions of candied violets, beef dripping, and tar. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is firm and grainy with seamless freshness framing the generous red, black, and blue fruits, finishing long and lifted.

DRINKING WINDOW 2024 - 2055

date of review 06/2022

95/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Vibrant plum colour, followed by spiced plum on the nose, more exotic in its range of flavours and silky texture than many vintages, still powerful and in its primary fruit phase. This is a gorgeous wine, hard to argue with, showing estate character over appellation or vintage. The tannins are softer at this stage that you will find with the 2016, even the 2014, but there is so much pleasure in the glass, and it will power ahead for decades. Harvest September 18 to October 3. This was the vintage where Tesseron decided to make no more Les Hauts de Pontet, with everything going either into the first wine, or declassified, as he felt both that the vineyard had reached the level he wanted, and also that philosophically that he wanted the wine to be a true reflection of the whole vineyard.

DRINKING WINDOW 2021 - 2045

date of review 10/2021