Pontet Canet - Pauillac (Futures Estimated Arrival Fall 2025) 2022 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $135.00
| Producer | Pontet Canet |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 1005906 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 99-100 Points
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.
Jeb Dunnuck: 97-99+ Points
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 layere
Vinous: 95-97 Points
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.
