Château Pontet Canet PAUILLAC 2022
- jd97-99+
- v95-97
Category | Red Wine |
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Brand | Château Pontet Canet |
Origin | France, Bordeaux, Pauillac |
En Primeur / Futures / arrives 2025
Ratings: 99-100 James Suckling / 97-99+ Jeb Dunnuck / 97-99 Lisa Perrotti-Brown / 95-97 Antonio Galloni / 94-96 Neal Martin / 95 Decanter / 94 Jane Anson
Jeb Dunnuck
- jd97-99+
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, layered mid-palate, building tannins, and a great finish. It has the purity, richness, and structure that makes this vintage so compelling and is going to be drinkable with just 4-6 years of bottle age but have an incredibly long life.
Vinous
- v95-97
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.