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  • Country ranking ?

    526
  • Producer ranking ?

    8
  • Decanting time

    6h
  • When to drink

    now to 2050
  • Food Pairing

    Spring lamb served pink with fresh herbs

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An amazing wine in every sense, this classic, full-bodied Pauillac is the quintessential Pontet Canet from proprietor Alfred Tesseron, who conitunes to reduce yields and farms his vineyards biodynamically - a rarity in Bordeaux. Black as a moonless night, the 2009 Pontet Canet offers up notes of incense, graphite, smoke, licorice, creme de cassis and blackberries. A wine of irrefutable purity, laser-like precision, colossal weight and richness...

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The Story

Pontet-Canet has always been a legendary Médoc. It is deep ruby-red, crimson, and sometimes almost black colour and has a characteristic bouquet of black fruit (especially blackcurrant), liquorice, and prune as well as fig, cedar, and sometimes cocoa overtones. Pontet-Canet combines power and elegance, as well as concentration and fullness on the palate. Rather sinewy in style, Pontet-Canet is clearly a classical wine with a tannic structure t...

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Wine Information

We are learning to understand the terroir, the vines as well as diseases and pests more and more thanks to nature's offering of immense resources that are so little used.
This enables us to help the vine build up a resistance against illness or pests, naturally, without aggression. This was particularly useful at the beginning of the season when frequent rain reminded us of the two previous years.
Then, once the summer began, the sun settled...

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Vintage 2009

Much like 1947, 1961 and 2005, 2009 is a year of almost overly (for Bordeaux) flamboyant and opulent wines with high maturity and low acidity. The tannins are exceptionally ripe, while the wines are quite voluptuous in style. The Left Bank recorded more hours of sunshine than legendary vintages such as 1947 and 1982, and the grapes had higher sugar concentrations than in 2003 and 2005. The key was significant diurnal temperature variations tha...

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Consistent notes. Very ripe fruit on the nose and palate, very long on the palate, velvety with silky fruit and silky tannin. Impressive sweetness of fruit. Rich and sophisticated. Excellent balance. Surprisingly drinkable now and imho there's little competition between fruit and tannin. It's like more finesse and elegance than power and strength, I did expect more concentration here, but maybe this wine just represents the style of the vintage. Awesome effort but not 100p wine for me. 97p.

  • 97p
Deep ruby. Massive, rich cassis and blueberries nose. Tight now. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, massive fruit, ripe feel and very long. I have loved it more before.
  • 94p
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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Outstanding

Value For Money

Best buy

Investment potential

Good

Fake factory

None

Glass time

3h

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