Château Pontet-Canet 2005
Pauillac 5ème Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2015 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2040 |
| Grapes: 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot | |
Critic scores
97+ RP, 97 NM, 96 AG, 96 WS, 94 WE, 95 IWC, 17 JR
Critic reviews
Possibly the youngest wine of all the 2005 Médocs in terms of its evolution, at age 10 the inky purple 2005 Pontet-Canet tastes more like a two-year-old wine. Loads of pure blueberry, blackberry and cassis fruit are present along with a hint of licorice and background oak. It is full-bodied, ripe, and excruciatingly fresh, vigorous and exuberant. This is a tour de force, and a sensational effort that rivals the first growths. Give it another 5-10 years of cellaring, and drink it over the following 30-40 years. 97+
Robert Parker, 30 June 2015
Tasted single blind at Southwold. This is a stellar offering, here proving its mettle in a tough blind peer group tasting. It has a spellbinding bouquet of blackberry, touches of bilberry and Xmas Cake – lovely definition with honeyed/fig jam elements coming through. Exotic ambitions abound. The palate has superb concentration, layers and layers of fruit, real depth and vibrancy here. Enormous length and ambition and you know that it knows it is going to pull it off! Just amazing density and power. I thought this was stunning out of barrel…it could be even better. Drink 2012-2030+ Tasted January 2009.
Neal Martin, 12 June 2009
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.
Antonio Galloni, 15 April 2021
Dark crimson. Silky sleek but very dry indeed! Really quite hard work at the moment. Some green-tomato flavour. Chewy end, some furriness. Quite extreme. 13% Drink 2020-2040(17-)
Jancis Robinson, 9 February 2015
Good full ruby-red. Complex, enticing aromas of black raspberry, licorice, minerals, bitter chocolate, lead pencil and pungent cedar; just this side of exotic. Wonderfully silky, sweet and thick, with a powerful minerality framing the currant, graphite and spice flavors. This boasts superb inner-mouth energy and great length, with the full, ripe tannins totally enrobed by the wine's mid-palate richness. (My sample of the 2006 was old and tired, so I'll wait until next year to report on the finished wine; this was a star in the early going.)
Stephen Tanzer, 30 June 2008
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.
Roger Voss, 1 June 2008
Robert Parker, 30 June 2015
Tasted single blind at Southwold. This is a stellar offering, here proving its mettle in a tough blind peer group tasting. It has a spellbinding bouquet of blackberry, touches of bilberry and Xmas Cake – lovely definition with honeyed/fig jam elements coming through. Exotic ambitions abound. The palate has superb concentration, layers and layers of fruit, real depth and vibrancy here. Enormous length and ambition and you know that it knows it is going to pull it off! Just amazing density and power. I thought this was stunning out of barrel…it could be even better. Drink 2012-2030+ Tasted January 2009.
Neal Martin, 12 June 2009
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.
Antonio Galloni, 15 April 2021
Dark crimson. Silky sleek but very dry indeed! Really quite hard work at the moment. Some green-tomato flavour. Chewy end, some furriness. Quite extreme. 13% Drink 2020-2040(17-)
Jancis Robinson, 9 February 2015
Good full ruby-red. Complex, enticing aromas of black raspberry, licorice, minerals, bitter chocolate, lead pencil and pungent cedar; just this side of exotic. Wonderfully silky, sweet and thick, with a powerful minerality framing the currant, graphite and spice flavors. This boasts superb inner-mouth energy and great length, with the full, ripe tannins totally enrobed by the wine's mid-palate richness. (My sample of the 2006 was old and tired, so I'll wait until next year to report on the finished wine; this was a star in the early going.)
Stephen Tanzer, 30 June 2008
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.
Roger Voss, 1 June 2008