Name: Chateau Pontet Canet 2024
Brand: Chateau Pontet Canet
Price: 152.88 NZD
Availability: InStock

94-96/100William Kelley

The 2024 Pontet-Canet underlines the fact that daring to harvest late paid dividends in this challenging vintage, wafting from the glass with aromas of cassis, black raspberries and plums mingled with accents of rose petals, licorice and exotic spices. Medium to full-bodied, deep and integrated, with mid-palate density that's all too rare this year, it's layered, suave and seamless, concluding with a long, sapid finish. Picking began on September 26 and concluded on October 11, with the heart of the estate's old-vine Cabernet Sauvignon coming in between the seventh and the ninth, well after many châteaux had finished their harvest. Greater reactivity during the season means that Pontet-Canet's vineyards are gaining in vigor, while in the winery, a lighter touch with extraction, systematic climate control and a wholesale refinement of the estate's cooperage choices have brought new harmony and sensuality to this estate's wines. That has combined with a willingness to take risks with harvest dates to deliver what is clearly one of the wines of the vintage. The blend is roughly half Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with the balance Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc.

92-93/100 Thomas Parker MW

Deep purple colour. Good fragrance here, with violets, cherry drops and cassis - a ripeness few have managed in this vintage that is layered with a stony, earthy spice that rises with air. The palate is led by dark fruit that is ripe but not overdone, together with more of that concrete-like stony spice that is unique to this property. The tannins are crunchy and firm - they need to knit into the fruit but it does feel like this is a vintage that will get there. Forest fruit, hedgerow and cassis linger on the finish, which is sandy in texture and unique in its profile but well done this year.

94/100 Jane Anson

Deep purple colour. Good fragrance here, with violets, cherry drops and cassis - a ripeness few have managed in this vintage that is layered with a stony, earthy spice that rises with air. The palate is led by dark fruit that is ripe but not overdone, together with more of that concrete-like stony spice that is unique to this property. The tannins are crunchy and firm - they need to knit into the fruit but it does feel like this is a vintage that will get there. Forest fruit, hedgerow and cassis linger on the finish, which is sandy in texture and unique in its profile but well done this year.

94-96/100 Antonio Galloni

The 2024 Pontet-Canet is one of the most elegant wines I have tasted here in some time, as in a long time. Brisk acids and beams of tannin shape a mid-weight, classically built Pontet-Canet unlike any I have tasted. The 2024 is not an obvious wine, it does not have the opulence of most recent years, rather it is a wine that impresses with its energy, tension and class. Floral, spice and mineral notes stain the palate in this vibrant, beautifully sculpted Pontet-Canet. The 2024 is seriously impressive, but it is also less immediate than what was once the norm because of a shift towards a style that favors greater energy and vibrancy than in the recent past. The evolution here is going to be fascinating to follow in the coming years. Tasted three times. 2032-2044.

93-95/100 Neal Martin

The 2024 Pontet Canet was picked between September 26 and October 11. It matured in 50% new oak, 15% used oak and 35% in concrete amphoras. It has a very pure bouquet with black cherry, wild strawberry, cassis and light violet scents vying for attention. This is not quite as complex as the '22 I tasted a few months earlier. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly grainy tannins on the entry, a keen line of acidity and veins of blue fruit commingling with black pepper and light graphite notes. Cohesive on the finish, there is an attractive linearity to this Pontet Canet, with satisfying sustain that delivers about as much precision as anyone could hope for in this vintage. Give this two or three years once in bottle, and drink over the next 15. 2029 - 2049

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