CHATEAU PONTET-CANET 5eme Grand Cru Classe Pauillac 2009 MAGNUM

Description

The 2009 Château Pontet-Canet is an exceptional wine, receiving a perfect score of 100 points from The Wine Advocate and 99 points from Wine Enthusiast. With its deep garnet colour, the wine offers opulent aromas of crème de cassis, baked plums, and Black Forest cake, complemented by hints of Chinese five spice and oolong tea. Full-bodied and decadent, it features a velvety texture and seamless freshness, culminating in an impressively long finish. Decanter describes a sumptuous black-fruit nose and rich structure, noting that it will benefit from further age. Vinous acknowledges its seductive cassis and blackberry flavours, with firm yet fine tannins. This outstanding wine is best enjoyed from 2020 to 2065, promising significant aging potential.

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THE WINE ADVOCATE 100 points !!!
Drink Date 2020 - 2065
Reviewed by Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Issue Date 29th May 2020, Source End of May 2020, The Wine Advocate
"Deep garnet in color, the 2009 Pontet-Canet slips sensuously from the glass with opulent scents of crème de cassis, baked plums and Black Forest cake plus suggestions of Chinese five spice, potpourri, oolong tea and menthol. Full-bodied, rich, spicy and oh-so-decadent in the mouth, it has a fantastically velvety frame and seamless freshness, finishing very long."

WINE ENTHUSIAST 99 points
98-100 Barrel sample. A superb wine, with the purest fruit, great freshness and ripeness. It is certainly structured with dry tannins, but the blackcurrant freshness is all there. The wine has a great limpid, flowing feel, lbut also power. — Roger Voss

DECANTER 95 points
Tasted by: Stephen Brook
Drinking Window: 2018 - 2035
Sumptuous black-fruits nose, vividly aromatic, as well as minty, stylish, and toasty. Very rich, broad, full-bodied and generous, with very ripe tannins and a lot fo spice. Perhaps slightly lower acidity than usual but has punch and persistence all the same. Approachable, just, but will benefit from more age. Good length with a chewy but not astringent finish.

VINOUS 95 points
The 2009 Pontet-Canet needs more encouragement from the glass than its peers, but it rewards the imbiber with seductive pure cassis and blackberry fruit, touches of autumn leaves and pencil box. The palate is medium-bodied with firm but fine tannin, a lovely bead of acidity. A harmonious, brown spice and smoke tinged finish fans out with confidence. You could open this now but it still has two more decades of drinking pleasure to give. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners’ 2009 Bordeaux tasting. - Neal Martin

JANCIS ROBINSON 17.5 points
Tasted blind. Mid crimson. Sweet tea leaves on the nose. Nice and neat and satisfying with some light dry tannins on the end. Good for now and the future without being a standout. Quite spicy. (JR)