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Chateau Pontet-Canet2000

RED WINE

PUBLIC
April 2025
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Chateau Pontet-Canet label
  • Producer Chateau Pontet-Canet
  • Blend 4% Cabernet Franc
    66% Cabernet Sauvignon
    30% Merlot
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Pauillac
  • UPC 0 15643 42423 6

Reviews

James Suckling 94

Extremely rich and decadent with leaf, meat and spice aromas. Ripe fruit too. Lots of toasted wood. Full and mature now. Lovely to drink now. Gorgeous.

by JS, James Suckling , 2016

Vinous Media 93

Deep red-ruby. Explosive nose combines raspberry, roasted currant, grilled nuts and exotic spices. Rich, sexy, silky and full in the mouth, with expressive flavors of black raspberry, game, smoke and truffle. Finishes with strong but suave tannins and excellent length. St. Julien.

by ST, Vinous Media , 2003

Wine Enthusiast 90

This is a very modern style of wine, with generous new wood and super-ripe fruit flavors, balancing with polished solid tannins. Very international in style, it is good, but could come from anywhere.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2003

Wine Spectator 93

Extremely pretty aromas of mineral, blackberry and raspberry. Full-bodied, with well-integrated tannins and a medium finish. Well-crafted red. The best Pontet-Canet ever.

by JS, Wine Spectator , 2003

Wine Advocate 92

Tasted at the Pontet-Canet vertical, the 2000 Château Pontet-Canet is perhaps where things start getting interesting, as Alfred Tesseron's top-to-toe reconfiguration of the vineyard and vinification began to impact and ameliorate the wine. It has a lovely bouquet of blackberry and briary fruit, hints of black truffle developing, later damp earth. There is an intensity here, if not the complexity of the best millennial Pauillacs. The palate is medium-bodied with a mixture of red and black fruit, cedar and sous-bois percolating up through and rendering it a "serious" Pontet-Canet in keeping with the vintage. There is a subtle and yet insistent grip on the finish. It has always been a tannic wine, but these are now softening, albeit at a slower pace than some might like. Therefore, I might be inclined to hold on to bottles for another 3-4 years.

by NM, Wine Advocate , 2016

Technical Details

Harvest

21st of September to 10th of October

Tasting notes

Very intense colour. In the nose, good balance between the fruit (blackberry, strawberry) and the wood (liquorice, grilled note).
In the mouth, the attack is rich but very soft. The wine is characterised by a very good length with an imposing structure composed of soft tannins The finale, which is not aggressive, is very long.