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Pontet Canet 2016
Pauillac, Fifth Growth
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Units | Size | Case size | GBP Price: | Quantities | Buy |
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1 | 150cl Magnum | Case 1 | £220 per Btl | Case | [Add to shopping basket] |
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Oh this is good. We are fully up to 2010 level here and coming close to surpassing it. A full wall of tannins, one of those wines that you have to scale to get to the heights but the views are great at the top. Cassis, bilberry, liqourice, black chocolate, aniseed, all with a sense of enegy and such freshness on the finish. Clear depth and vivacity to all elements of this wine. It needs time, because the tannins are a little forbidding right now, but it is going to be worth the wait. Harvest September 28 to October 12. Score: 98 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2021-2050 15 October 2021 |
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The 2016 Pontet-Canet yet again suggested that there is inconsistency between bottles. It has a decadent bouquet of precocious red fruit laced with truffle, garrigue and meat juice aromas – not the most typical Pauillac that you will find, though not unattractive. The palate is full-bodied with soft, rounded tannins and slightly lower perceived acidity than its peers. There is impressive volume on this lavish Pauillac, but this bottle seems to have mislaid its typicité. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting. Score: - Neal Martin, Inside Bordeaux 01 August 2020 |
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The 2016 Pontet-Canet is absolutely breathtaking. Powerful, ample and racy in the glass, the 2016 is one of the most exquisitely well-balanced young Pontet-Canets I can remember tasting. Savory, high-toned aromatics and brisk mineral notes lend energy and delineation as this vivid wonderfully alive wine opens up in the glass. The flavors are dark and incisive, but it is the wine's total sense of harmony that is most compelling. All of the elements are simply in the right place. The 2016 is tremendous. It's as simple as that. As is often the case, Pontet-Canet is one of the most singular wines in Bordeaux. Alfred Tesseron could have chosen to play things safe when he took over the management of the estate in the mid-1990s. Instead, he chose a very different path. No proprietor in Bordeaux has taken more risks over the last two decades than Alfred Tesseron. A commitment to biodynamic farming, sustainability across the entire estate more broadly, and the adoption of new concepts for Bordeaux, such as aging a portion of the wine in terra cotta, set Pontet-Canet apart from other properties in Pauillac and the Left Bank. Not surprisingly, the wine is also starkly different from the wines of neighboring estates. Score: 99 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2066 01 January 2019 |
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The blend of the 2016 Pontet-Canet is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. Around 55% of the wine was aged in new French oak barrels, 15% in two-year-old barrels and 35% in cement amphorae for 16 months. Deep garnet-purple colored, it opens with opulent scents of plum preserves, spice cake, hoisin and crème de cassis with fragrant wafts of potpourri, wood smoke and rose hip tea. Medium to full-bodied, rich and decadent, with loads of spicy layers, it has a firm, velvety texture with great freshness and incredible depth, finishing very long and on a compelling mineral note. Score: 98 Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2023-2059 30 November 2018 |
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This is richly layered with seductively ripe fruit. The quality and texture of the brambled blackberries, cassis and bilberries is striking. There is a sense of lightness and juiciness but also depth and flesh - you can feel the joy of that contrast at every step as the wine stretches out in front of you, hard to resist. 2016 is another vintage where they are up at 95%+ of grand vin, this year aged in 55% new casks, 10% in one year old casks and 35% in amphorae. Feel the effects of biodynamics make Pontet Canet stand out for its energy and lush tannins, even with the concentration of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot. Score: 97 Decanter, - Maturity: 2027-2050 20 April 2017 |
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Deep purple colour with a voluptuous nose of super-ripe black fruit, pencil shavings, violet and a touch of prune. On the palate there is vivid blue and sweet black fruits with an impressively effortless mouthfeel and natural concentration that has to typify Pontet Canet. Great energy and density with cocoa, spices and a lifted note of bright blueberries on the back end. Vibrant and long. Score: 95 - 97 Albany Vintners, - 19 April 2017 |
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Very dark crimson. More savoury and sumptuous than many of its neighbours. Blackberry compote and very round and rich and satiny. Very round. Almost too sweet but that is to complain needlessly. Already rich and enjoyable but masses of tannins too. Long and throbbing. Excellent with freshness and cleanliness and round. Pretty sweet though so it's a definite style. Picked 28 September to 12 October. Director Jean-Michel Comme says maybe a bit earlier than some. I'm not sure. They've been biodynamic for 12 years but 2007 was so bad that they had to abandon status. 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot. 34 hl/ha – reduced to that from spring pruning. Score: 18 Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2024-2050 18 April 2017 |
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Vivid and full of energy with blackberry, currant and salt. Full body, intense and long. Harmony. Purpose. Classicism. The mineral and currant character is all year. A seamless tannin texture. Great wine. You want to drink it now! Score: 98 - 99 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com 24 March 2017 |