Château Pontet-Canet - Pauillac 2005 (750ml)
Price: $275.00
Sale Price: $200.00
| Producer | Château Pontet-Canet |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2005 |
| Sku | 1005315 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 98 Points
So much floral and dark-fruit character with almonds and walnut shell. Full body and ultra-fine tannins. Powerful. Classic style with a harmony and energy. Goes on for minutes. A superb wine with great fruit. Real Bordeaux. Try in 2025.
Jeb Dunnuck: 97 Points
A classic expression of this Château that’s still in its adolescent phase, the 2005 Château Pontet-Canet has a youthful ruby/plum hue to go with incredibly pure aromatics of cassis, graphite, crushed stone like minerality, and subtle cedar pencil notes. I love its overall purity and focus, and it’s medium to full-bodied, has ripe, yet building tannins, terrific balance, and a great finish. While it clearly offers pleasure, especially if you don’t mind some tannins, it deserves another 3-5 years of bottle age, and it should have a two decade or so prime drinking plateau.
Wine Advocate: 97 Points
"Tasted at the Pontet-Canet vertical in London the 2005 Château Pontet-Canet has long been one of the stars of the vintage and this might well be the best of over a dozen showings of this wine. However do not expect ostentation on the nose. This is 2005 and like many wines of this vintage even with considerable decanting it remained broody and introspective on the nose as if it is checking you out and seeing if you are worthy. Once you have been accepted then it swings the doors open to reveal gorgeous scents of blackberry briary and cassis fruit perhaps a little more sous-bois than I have noticed compared to previous bottles. The palate is medium-bodied but dense and structured?certainly a more masculine Pontet-Canet built for long-term ageing. Yet it retains marvelous freshness and vitality all the way through to the pencil-lead quite saline finish. I suspect that the 2009 Pontet-Canet is more approachable than the 2005 so heeding Robert Parker's sage advice afford this up to ten years in your cellar and then reap the rewards of patience. Tasted February 2016." -Neal Martin
Vinous: 96 Points
The 2005 Pontet-Canet is a heady exotic wine. Inky dark fruit mocha chocolate licorice spice and tobacco are front and center. Readers will find an unabashedly opulent full-throttle 2005 with quite a bit more oak influence and overall extraction than is the norm these days. Even so the 2005 is a young young wine with a bright future. This is one sexy Pauillac that's for sure. - By Antonio Galloni on April 2021
Vinous Media: 96 Points
The 2005 Pontet-Canet is a heady, exotic wine. Inky dark fruit, mocha, chocolate, licorice, spice and tobacco are front and center. Readers will find an unabashedly opulent, full-throttle 2005 with quite a bit more oak influence and overall extraction than is the norm these days. Even so, the 2005 is a young, young wine with a bright future. This is one sexy Pauillac, that's for sure.
- By Antonio Galloni on April 2021
Wine Spectator: 96 Points
"Black in color with aromas of blackberry black licorice tar mineral and fresh flowers. Full-bodied and powerful with ultrafine tannins that last for minutes on the palate. A polished thought-provoking wine. Shows wonderful purity of Cabernet Sauvignon."
Wine Enthusiast: 94 Points
"Despite its core of strength and power and obvious aging ability this is already a delicious wine with mint aromas ripe fruit masking the solid tannins. This estate has been on a roll for several years and this 2005 shows why."
