A voluptuous wine, this is rich and fruity yet properly balanced by a magnificent structure. Pure, crisp and packed with a black currant flavor, this will be a remarkable wine as it develops. Still young, it needs many years to develop. Don't think about drinking before 2025.
The 2016 Pontet-Canet is absolutely breathtaking. Powerful, ample and racy in the glass, the 2016 is one of the most exquisitely well-balanced young Pontet-Canets I can remember tasting. Savory, high-toned aromatics and brisk mineral notes lend energy and delineation as this vivid wonderfully alive wine opens up in the glass. The flavors are dark and incisive, but it is the wine's total sense of harmony that is most compelling. All of the elements are simply in the right place. The 2016 is tremendous. It's as simple as that. As is often the case, Pontet-Canet is one of the most singular wines in Bordeaux. Alfred Tesseron could have chosen to play things safe when he took over the management of the estate in the mid-1990s. Instead, he chose a very different path. No proprietor in Bordeaux has taken more risks over the last two decades than Alfred Tesseron. A commitment to biodynamic farming, sustainability across the entire estate more broadly, and the adoption of new concepts for Bordeaux, such as aging a portion of the wine in terra cotta, set Pontet-Canet apart from other properties in Pauillac and the Left Bank. Not surprisingly, the wine is also starkly different from the wines of neighboring estates.
It’s madness not to have this in your cellar at $159.95. 2016 (!), 100-pointer, great price, and a wine to treasure BIG time! ** OUR PRICE is sensational (near en primeur pricing), among the lowest anywhere -- get a few to drink and a few for investment! A legend in the making!
Did we say 100 points? Well, it’s also V99, WA98+, etc., etc. So - Chateau Pontet Canet. Led by the irrepressible Alfred Tesseron, who famously brought the Chateau back into rockstar status during the 90s (when most of the First Growths with the same press were selling for 3-4 X as much). Leaving behind conventional vinegrowing techniques in order to embrace organic and biodynamic methods, they have allowed the terroir to reclaim its origins. Speaking of terroir, Pontet Canet happens to be perfectly situated in Paulliac’s gravelly Rodeo drive, next to Mouton Rothschild.
The hype in the ‘16 Bordeaux vintage is real. The wines offer EVERYTHING - power, balance, harmoniousness, concentration and elegance. A few choice snippets: “...the most exquisitely well-balanced young Pontet-Canets I can remember tasting...a wine that will merit a triple-digit rating in a decade or so... singular, beautiful...All of the elements are simply in the right place. The 2016 is tremendous.”
$159.95. Wow! Compare at $200+! Put this in your cellar to treasure for many years -- we have 20 3-packs cases to sell!
About the Producer
Alfred Tesseron and his team, led by Jean-Michel Comme, Pontet-Canet’s estate manager, since 1989, have completely transformed both the vineyard and the identity of Château Pontet-Canet. Leaving behind conventional vinegrowing techniques in order to embrace organic and biodynamic methods, they have allowed the terroir to reclaim its origins. Speaking of terroir, Pontet Canet happens to be perfectly situated in Paulliac’s gravelly Rodeo drive, next to Mouton.
