Château Pontet-Canet - Pauillac 2015 (750ml)
Price: $165.00
| Producer | Château Pontet-Canet |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2015 |
| Sku | 1005250 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 98 Points
"So much floral and dark-fruit character with almonds and walnut shell. Full body and ultra-fine tannins. Powerful. Classic style with a harmony and energy. Goes on for minutes. A superb wine with great fruit. Real Bordeaux. Try in 2025."
Vinous: 97+ Points
Proprietor Alfred Tesseron and winemaker Jean-Michel Comme produced an absolutely stellar Pontet-Canet in 2015. Sumptuous racy and totally inviting the 2015 is all class. Super-ripe dark cherry plum spice and exotic floral notes build as the 2015 shows off its alluring personality. Even with all of its raciness the 2015 speaks with authority and power. Fine tannins extend the persistent highly nuanced finish. The 2015 is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon 30% Merlot 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot aged 50% new oak 4% in terra cotta and 15% in neutral oak. Tasted three times.
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider: 97 Points
Deeply colored initially you notice Cuban cigars eucalyptus coffee bean flowers blackberries and cassis. On the palate the wine is rich plush and polished with an opulence to the texture
Wine Enthusiast: 97 Points
Succulent fruits rich tannins and juicy acidity are in perfect harmony in this wine produced from biodynamic grapes. It has a rich velvet texture and dense structure sumptuous and already balanced and delicious. However do not be fooled this is a serious wine for aging. Drink no earlier than 2026.
The Wine Independent: 97 Points
A blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon 30% Merlot 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot the 2015 Pontet-Canet is deep garnet-purple colored. It rolls effortlessly out of the glass with notes of blackcurrant pastilles raspberry coulis and blueberry compote plus suggestions of candied violets beef dripping and tar. Medium to full-bodied the palate is firm and grainy with seamless freshness framing the generous red black and blue fruits finishing long and lifted.
Wine Advocate: 97 Points
Deep garnet-purple in color the 2015 Pontet-Canet comes charging out of the glass with fantastically expressive notes of black cherry preserves black raspberries and blackcurrant pastilles plus touches of kirsch wilted roses tobacco camphor and cinnamon stick with a waft of fragrant soil. Full bodied the palate is laden with black and red fruit layers supported by very firm very finely grained tannins and provocative freshness finishing with incredible length and stunningly perfumed.
Falstaff: 96 Points
Dark ruby, purple reflections, delicate edge brightening. Finely spiced dark forest berries, nuances of blueberry and blackberry mingle with the typical cassis nuances, tobacco and herbal spices, tiny animalistic hints. Complex and full-bodied, ripe black cherry, fine, very well integrated tannins, juicy and with a pleasant freshness. Combines finesse with power, here you can feel the polish of the amphorae for the first time. 2015 is the year in which the caesura in the vineyard really arrived in the wine for the first time, and from now on no more second wines were produced. (2025 -2070).
Jane Anson: 95 Points
Vibrant plum colour followed by spiced plum on the nose more exotic in its range of flavours and silky texture than many vintages still powerful and in its primary fruit phase. This is a gorgeous wine hard to argue with showing estate character over appellation or vintage. The tannins are softer at this stage that you will find with the 2016 even the 2014 but there is so much pleasure in the glass and it will power ahead for decades. Harvest September 18 to October 3. This was the vintage where Tesseron decided to make no more Les Hauts de Pontet with everything going either into the first wine or declassified as he felt both that the vineyard had reached the level he wanted and also that philosophically that he wanted the wine to be a true reflection of the whole vineyard.
fsWine Spectator: 94 Points
This sports a lovely core of gently steeped plum blackberry and black currant fruit carried by velvety structure while smoldering tobacco and charcoal notes fill in through the finish. Fleshes out steadily in the glass revealing more juniper bay leaf and loam accents. Best from 2022 through 2035. ?JM
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