2022 Ch Pontet Canet 5ème Cru Pauillac - 6x75cl
06C2PONC6PK _ 2022 - Ch Pontet Canet 5ème Cru Pauillac - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Pontet-Canet
  • Region Pauillac
  • Drinking 2028 - 2048
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur

2022 - Ch Pontet Canet 5ème Cru Pauillac - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Pontet-Canet
  • Region Pauillac
  • Drinking 2028 - 2048
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur
Case price: £539.00 In Bond
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  • Neal Martin, April 2023, Score: 94-96

    The 2022 Pontet Canet has a pure nose with perfumed blackberry and cassis fruit. It takes time to cohere, evolving light pencil lead notes after 8-10 minutes. The palate has a lovely chalky texture on the entry, and a silver bead of acidity. Perhaps, more complexity than the aromatics suggest at the moment. Fine balance, moderate grip, the mineralité coming toward the final third, it fans out with gusto. There is quite a long residual peppery note on the aftertaste that you can feel after 30 seconds. I have not pulled any punches in recent vintages, when stylistically, I felt that it has veered too far away from Pauillac, for my personal taste. But closely examining this 2022, today, it seems safely within the appellation. Drink 2028-2050

  • Decanter, April 2023, Score: 95

    Vibrant, vivid purple colour in the glass, rich and deep. Smells bright, super fresh and expressive on the nose with freshly-picked blackcurrants and perfumed purple flowers - the Petit Verdot, really standing out. Clean and clear, creamy, powdery and softly chewy on the palate. The texture is lovely, you can tell they haven't over extracted but there’s still clear concentration with a gentle succulence provided by the acidity, cool freshness and appealing mineral touches alongside liquorice, clove, dried herbs and bitter chocolate. Enjoyable and well defined if still a little compact. 3.85pH. 4% Cabernet Franc completes the blend. 15% press wine used. Harvest 8 - 28 September, the earliest and longest ever. 20% lower yields than in 2021. The technical team used a clay sunscreen on the grapes to avoid burning. Tasted twice.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2023, Score: 95-97

    The 2022 Pontet-Canet is a surprising wine. Usually much more opulent, especially in warm, dry years, the 2022 comes across as restrained and understated. It is a wine of linear intensity rather than size, marked by notable freshness and a feeling of tension and precision I don’t recall seeing in the past. Clean mineral notes extend the finish effortlessly. I very much admire the precision and vibrancy here. Unforgettable. Drink 2028-2042.

  • Goedhuis, May 2023, Score: 94-96

    In recent years this superbly positioned Fifth Growth has been something of a Marmite wine, splitting many a tasters’ opinion as to its overall quality! The 2022 vintage see a happy consensus: this a true Pauillac in every sense, bright, full and energetic. Deep opaque in colour, striking aromas of vanilla, cassis and smoky oak. A noticeable richness of fruit, but with great drive and a tight tannic core. Very layered as the sweet dark fruit profile unfolds, it has tremendous persistence at the end.

  • James Suckling, April 2023, Score: 99-100

    What a finish on this Pontet-Canet. So much energy and brightness. It's full-bodied yet so tight and focused with superb fruit and transparency. It is racy and fine with super fine texture. It's like crushed cabernet sauvignon with cassis, tobacco and cigar box. Licorice and spices. Freshness of the seed. 57% cabernet sauvignon, 35% merlot, 4% cabernet franc, and 4% petit verdot.

  • Jane Anson, April 2023, Score: 94

    Vivid plum colour, violet reflections, chewy tannins from the first moments. Loaded with cassis, blueberry and fresh fig fruits, laced through with rosemary, sage, dried herbs, edges of chamomile and fresh mushroom. Tight in its tannic structure, with smoked earth, cinammo, cardamom and lavender. Mathieu Bessonnet technical director, and the 47th vintage of owner Alfred Tesseron, 50% new oak, 35% amphora, 15% one year old barrels, 55 year average age of the vines. Harvest September 8 to 28, with clay used as sunscreen on the grapes to avoid sunburn, and a selection before harvest to drop any shrivelled berries.

  • Jeb Dunnuck, April 2023, Score: 97-99+

    The 2022 Château Pontet-Canet is brilliant and should easily be up with the crème de la crème from the Médoc. Based on 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, and 4% each of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, it was vinified mostly in concrete (there's a small part in wood), and the aging is in 50% new French oak, 35% in amphora, and the rest in once-used barrels. It has an incredibly pure bouquet of cassis, graphite, lead pencil, and scorched earth. This carries to a full-bodied Pauillac with a deep, layered mid-palate, building tannins, and a great finish. It has the purity, richness, and structure that makes this vintage so compelling and is going to be drinkable with just 4-6 years of bottle age but have an incredibly long life.

  • Matthew Jukes, April 2023, Score: 19+

    Château Pontet-Canet (5ème Cru Pauillac) 57 Cabernet Sauvignon, 35 Merlot, 4 Petit Verdot, 4 Cabernet Franc 50% new oak, 35% goes in concrete amphoras, 15% one year old barrels 14.5% alc Harvest took place between 8 – 28 September Seductive, delicious and fondant, this is a wholly indulgent wine with deep, plummy fruit and as velvety a chassis as I have tasted. The tisanerie (a herbal tea room in which the biodynamic preparations are made) was busy this year, and in addition to the various teas that are deployed in a regular vintage - Valerian to helped with frost, and Chamomile was used in the summer. They even used a fascinating ‘sunscreen’ made from calcined clay, from Limoges, which forms a milky white, ultra-fine sun-resistant layer on leaves and grapes and it remains in place for a couple of days before blowing away, thus neutralising the sun’s rays at the peak of the heatwaves. They did it three times on Cabernet and twice on Merlot, which helps the leaves and grapes not burn or sweat. While they started picking on the earliest date ever at Pontet-Canet, this was not the only record broken in this vintage because it was the most prolonged harvest, too, at a day shy of three weeks. It is impossible not to love this wine, and my only question is, are there sufficient tannins to make it last the course? I think there are, but they are not traditional drying, astringent tannins, but fin-grained and much lighter than usual. The deep purple hue, exotic florals and Pontet-Canet succulence are here in spades, and while it already appears to be complete, hedonistic and unusually succulent, who is to say that this wine will not evolve further, bringing even more wildness and spice to the fore?

Producer

Château Pontet-Canet

This star has been rising since 1994 when Alfred Tesseron began practicing Draconian-like measuresto extract the most potential from his top Pauillac property. Some of the advances include debudding, de-leafing and severe crop thinning. Unlike many advanced Bordeaux cellars, their vinification vats are not set on "auto pilot" but are manually and meticulously controlled. They understand the needs of each vintage vary and re...Read more

This star has been rising since 1994 when Alfred Tesseron began practicing Draconian-like measuresto extract the most potential from his top Pauillac property. Some of the advances include debudding, de-leafing and severe crop thinning. Unlike many advanced Bordeaux cellars, their vinification vats are not set on "auto pilot" but are manually and meticulously controlled. They understand the needs of each vintage vary and respond accordingly.Read less

Region

Pauillac

Due south of St Estèphe lies the appellation of Pauillac, the king of Left Bank communes. It is home to three first growths as well as a plethora of other classified growths. Pauillac's renowned well-draining, gravelly soils enable its dominant grape Cabernet Sauvignon to reach fantastic heights of complexity and concentration. As a result, Pauilac's wines tend to be full-bodied with compact tannins and good freshness. Its aromatics are often what one associates with classic Bordeaux: pencil shavings, black currant and occasional mint. Some of the most famous châteaux of the commune are Latour, Mouton Rothschild, Lafite Rothschild, Pichon Baron, Pichon Lalande and Lynch Bages.

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