Château Pontet-Canet - Pauillac 2009 (750ml)
Price: $332.00
| Producer | Château Pontet-Canet |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2009 |
| Sku | 191095 |
| Size | 750ml |
The Wine Independent: 100 Points
Deep garnet colored, the 2009 Pontet-Canet prances out of the glass with exuberant notes of black cherry preserves, warm cassis, and boysenberries, followed by a powerful perfume of star anise, candied violets, fallen leaves, and crushed rocks. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is packed with decadently rich, sensuous black berry preserves and exotic spices flavors, backed by a velvety texture and seamless freshness, finishing with epic length. Stunning.
Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Review date: 2024-03-14
Jeb Dunnuck: 100 Points
A consistently perfect wine every time I've had it the 2009 Château Pontet-Canet is the greatest wine from this address to date as well as one of the greatest Pauillacs out there. Still youthfully ruby/purple and with a gorgeous perfume of blackcurrants lead pencil graphite crushed rocks and damp earth it's still youthful but is just now starting to show more nuance and complexity. Full-bodied on the palate with a powerful concentrated mid-palate incredible depth of fruit and flawless balance Bordeaux simply does not get any better. You couldn't have too much of this in the cellar and this magical wine is going to drink brilliantly for another 50 years or more.
Wine Advocate: 100 Points
"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: 98-100 Points
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.
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider: 99 Points
Everything about this wine is great. It is rich concentrated ripe opulent pure fresh balanced and interesting. The fruit and its beautiful sense of purity is all there. Texturally it is power and silk giving you length breadth and reason after reason to take another sniff and sip. 99 Points
James Suckling: 98 Points
Stunning aromas of fresh flowers with blueberries blackberries and currants that follow through to a full body with super balance and finesse. The tannins are super polished. Such class here. Best ever from here. From biodynamically grown grapes. Try in 2018.
Jane Anson: 98 Points
Beautifully deep ruby colour, deliciously brambled fruits, cigar box, chocolate drops, mint leaf, confident and cradling tannins, this is a beautiful wine, easy and luxurious. The estate was in organic conversion at this point, not yet certified. Great quality. Jean-Michel Comme technical director.
Wine Spectator: 96 Points
This is amazingly expressive now considering how huge it is with stunning espresso and warm fig confiture aromas followed by lush layer after layer of blackberry paste cassis and plum sauce. A terrific loam underpinning strides in on the finish which is weighty but sports serious cut. Equal parts fruit and earth. Best from 2018 through 2038. 26665 cases made.
Vinous Media: 96 Points
Bright, full ruby. Pure, vibrant aromas of cassis, blackberry, blueberry, licorice, graphite and leather. Like liquid velvet on entry, then energetic and sharply delineated in the mid-palate, with penetrating minerality intensifying the pristine dark berry flavors. Most impressive today on the extremely long, perfumed finish, which shows suave, noble tannins and a magically light touch for such an intense wine. This wine is remarkably tastable today but it's also built for 30+ years of aging.
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. (Drink between 2022-2042)
