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2017 Château Pontet-Canet, Pauillac, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (64%),Merlot (30%),Cabernet Franc (4%),Petit Verdot (2%)
Ready - youthful
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
96-98/100
James Suckling
96-97/100
Product: 20178007342
2017 Château Pontet-Canet, Pauillac, Bordeaux

Description

A blend of 64 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 30 percent Merlot, two percent Petit Verdot, four percent Cabernet Franc. Delicate scent, pure red fruit, smooth texture, silky, energy, vitality, raspberry, redcurrant. It has a persistent, medium weight, long finish. Juicy cassis and cream on the nose. Good weight on the palate with lovely, cool red fruit, and a good explosion of acidity giving this a really good balance of fruit and freshness. There is a very good grip of finely integrated tannins, with great length. This year has more freshness. A very good wine that is showy and yet tuned-in with great minerality and cooling acidity.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2017
Alcohol % 13
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (64%),Merlot (30%),Cabernet Franc (4%),Petit Verdot (2%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Pontet-Canet

Critics reviews

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 96-98/100
Blended of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the deep garnet-purple colored 2017 Pontet-Canet opens with vibrant wild blueberries, black raspberries and crushed plums with notions of cinnamon stick, violets, unsmoked cigars and pencil lead plus wafts of roses, lavender and tilled black soil. Medium-bodied with very fine, incredibly plush tannins, it is deliciously savory in the mouth, with wonderful freshness and spectacular energy delivering many layers, resulting in a very long, mineral-laced finish. Lisa Perrotti-Brown - 27/04/2018
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, (Apr 2018)
James Suckling 96-97/100
This is incredibly transparent and refined with blackcurrant, blueberry and mineral character. Full-bodied, layered and ethereal. Tannins have a crushed-stone character. Long and persistent. james_suckling - jamessuckling_com - April 2018
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Apr 2018)

About this wine

Cabernet Sauvignon

The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
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Chateau Pontet-Canet

Château Pontet-Canet is a large Pauillac estate that can trace its origins back to 1725, when Jean-François Pontet gave his name to the estate he had acquired. The wine was not château-bottled until 1972 and in 1975 the property was sold to Guy Tesseron, of the Tesseron family, one of the finest exponents of luxury, very old, aged Cognacs (Cognac Tesseron). The Tesserons also own Château Lafon-Rochet in St-Estephe. Today, Château Pontet-Canet is owned and run by Alfred and Michel Tesseron.
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