2011 Chateau Pontet Canet, 5th Growth Pauillac (12 x Bottle)
Ripe, full and generous with a note of toasty oak. Medium bodied with good concentration and fine supple tannins.
2011 Chateau Pontet Canet, 5th Growth Pauillac (12 x Bottle)
Ripe, full and generous with a note of toasty oak. Medium bodied with good concentration and fine supple tannins.
| Producer | Chateau Pontet-Canet |
|---|---|
| Sub-Region | Pauillac |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Country | France |
| Vintage | 2011 |
| Colour | Red |
| ABV | 14.00% |
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A lighter-framed vintage than the 2010, and you see it even in the colour of the wine, that is still young but has a trace of rose-pink around the edging. Love the aromatics of smoke, chamomile, and fragrant violet. Touches of russet, autumn-tinged leaf alongside earthy red cherry and raspberry. This is a good choice for drinking now, but it will age because there are plenty of finely placed and integrated tannins. I gave this 95 points last time I tasted this in February 2021, and it is easily one of my favourite 2011s but there is austerity here. Harvest September 15 to 29, with a little more Merlot in the blend than is usual after a dry but not overly hot summer followed by a tricky harvest. 90% of the crop went into this wine, far higher than the first wine of many classifieds in the vintage.
94 Points / Drinking 2021 - 2042
By Jane Anson / October 2021
Robert Parker Wine Advocate
Tasted at the Pontet-Canet vertical in London, the 2011 Château Pontet Canet must constitute one of the best wines on the Left Bank, even if it does not quite live up to its stellar performance from barrel. Lucid purple in color, the bouquet leaps from the glass and yells “Pauillac” – thanks to its graphite seam interwoven through the black fruit. Over ten minutes, tobacco scents join the fray and it develops what you might call “mint fresh” aromatics. The palate is medium-bodied and remains understated on the entry, perhaps exaggerated by the exuberance of the nose. However, there is no question that this is a refined, pure and seamless Pontet-Canet with crème de cassis and cedar inter-layered on the sustained finish. Bon vin. Tasted February 2016.
93 Points / Drinking 2020 - 2038
By Neal Martin / July 2016
Vinous
The 2011 Pontet Canet has a well-defined bouquet with brambly red fruit, tar and tobacco, classic in style, maybe just missing a little flair? The palate is sweet and rounded in texture, quite extractive with mulberry and gamey notes, fairly bretty towards the almost Rhône-like finish. This is difficult to fathom out, not an unenjoyable wine for sure, yet it is missing typicité. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting.
89 Points / Drinking 2022 - 2032
By Neal Martin / April 2022