2005 Chateau Pontet-Canet 5eme Cru Classe, Pauillac 12x75cl

2005 Chateau Pontet-Canet 5eme Cru Classe, Pauillac 12x75cl

$2,520.00 Excl. GST
$2,746.80 Incl. GST
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COUNTRY
France
REGION
Bordeaux
VINTAGE
2005
PRODUCER
Chateau Pontet-Canet
WINE TYPE
Red
AVAILABILITY
Immediate, 1 in stock, Duty Paid

Producer Profile

Area under vines: 80 hectares
Soils: Gravel and sand
Average age of the vines: 45 years
Planting density: 9500 vines/ha
Production: 20 000 cases a year
Ageing: in 60% new oak barrels for 16 months

Grape varieties:

  • Cabernet Sauvignon 62%
  • Merlot 32%
  • Cabernet Franc 4%
  • Petit Verdot 2%

Second wine: Les Hauts de Pontet-Canet

  • Grape varieties:

    • Cabernet Sauvignon 53%
    • Merlot 46%
    • Cabernet Franc 1%

    Learn more about Château Pontet-Canet
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    Tasting Notes

    Vinous 96

    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, 15/04/2021]

    Anticipated maturity: 2025-2045

    Robert Parker 97

    Tasted at the Pontet-Canet vertical in London, the 2005 Chateau Pontet-Canet has long been one of the stars of the vintage and this might well be the best of over a dozen showings of this wine. However, do not expect ostentation on the nose. This is 2005 and like many wines of this vintage, even with considerable decanting, it remained broody and introspective on the nose, as if it is checking you out and seeing if you are worthy. Once you have been accepted, then it swings the doors open to reveal gorgeous scents of blackberry, briary and cassis fruit, perhaps a little more sous-bois than I have noticed compared to previous bottles. The palate is medium-bodied, but dense and structured-certainly a more masculine Pontet-Canet built for long-term ageing. Yet it retains marvelous freshness and vitality all the way through to the pencil-lead, quite saline finish. I suspect that the 2009 Pontet-Canet is more approachable than the 2005, so heeding Robert Parker’s sage advice, afford this up to ten years in your cellar and then reap the rewards of patience. Tasted February 2016. [Neal Martin, 28/09/2017]

    Anticipated maturity: 2025-2050

    JancisRobinson.com 17.5

    Tasted blind. Blackish crimson. Spicy sweet fruit and then dry. Pleasure before a bit of pain, but overall it s well done and pretty glamorous. [23/02/2017]

    Anticipated maturity: 2017-2040

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