Chateau Pontet Canet Pauillac 5th Grand Cru Classe 2009
This wine is a stunning example of a Pauillac from a top-notch producer. With a deep, almost opaque color, this wine offers rich aromas of black fruit, graphite, and cedar. On the palate, it is full-bodied with intense flavors of black currants, blackberries, and a hint of vanilla. The tannins are firm and ripe, providing excellent structure to this wine. It has a long, lingering finish with a touch of minerality. This wine is drinking beautifully now but will continue to improve with age.
Wine Enthusiast
A superb wine, with the purest fruit, great freshness and ripeness. It is certainly structured with dry tannins, but the blackcurrant freshness is all there. The wine has a great limpid, flowing feel, lbut also power.
Robert Parker (Wine Advocate) -
The 2010 Pontet-Canet offers a very deep garnet color. Whoa—the nose explodes with a vast array of black fruit preserves and savory nuances: plum preserves, blackcurrant cordial, black cherry coulis and licorice with wafts of dried lavender, melted chocolate, charcuterie, black olives, truffles and camphor plus a hint of sandalwood. The full-bodied palate is completely filled with black fruits, exotic spices and earthy nuances with a firm foundation of ripe, grainy tannins and bold freshness, finishing with epic length and depth. So much more expressive and seductive than a lot of 2010s at this stage, and yet it is still incredibly youthful! - Reviewed by Lisa Perrotti-Brown
