Château Pontet-Canet - Pauillac 2015 (3L)
Price: $595.00
| Producer | Château Pontet-Canet |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2015 |
| Sku | 5005250 |
| Size | 3L |
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."
Vinous: 97+ Points
Proprietor Alfred Tesseron and winemaker Jean-Michel Comme produced an absolutely stellar Pontet-Canet in 2015. Sumptuous racy and totally inviting the 2015 is all class. Super-ripe dark cherry plum spice and exotic floral notes build as the 2015 shows off its alluring personality. Even with all of its raciness the 2015 speaks with authority and power. Fine tannins extend the persistent highly nuanced finish. The 2015 is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon 30% Merlot 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot aged 50% new oak 4% in terra cotta and 15% in neutral oak. Tasted three times.
Wine Enthusiast: 97 Points
Succulent fruits rich tannins and juicy acidity are in perfect harmony in this wine produced from biodynamic grapes. It has a rich velvet texture and dense structure sumptuous and already balanced and delicious. However do not be fooled this is a serious wine for aging. Drink no earlier than 2026.
Wine Advocate: 96+ Points
"A blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon 30% Merlot 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot 50% of the 2015 Pontet-Canet was aged in new French oak while 15% was matured in second fill barrels and 35% in cement amphorae. Deep garnet-purple in color the nose opens with exuberant black currants red currants and black raspberries scents plus an evocative undercurrent of cedar chest dusty earth cloves chocolate box and Provence herbs with a fragrant waft of lavender. Medium to full-bodied and built like a brick house with very firm wonderfully grainy tannins and black and red fruits charged with the most singular energy it finishes with incredible persistence and depth."
Wine Spectator: 94 Points
This sports a lovely core of gently steeped plum blackberry and black currant fruit carried by velvety structure while smoldering tobacco and charcoal notes fill in through the finish. Fleshes out steadily in the glass revealing more juniper bay leaf and loam accents. Best from 2022 through 2035. ?JM
