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Château Pontet Canet Pauillac 2018
$166.00
Château Pontet Canet Pauillac 2018
$166.00
Pauillac
2018
5th Growth
70 % Cabernet Sauvignon
22 % Merlot
5 % Cabernet Franc
3 % Petit Verdot
Region: Bordeaux
ESTATE HISTORY
The history of Château Pontet-Canet dates back to the early 18th century when Jean-François de Pontet, grand equerry of the king became governor of the Medoc, brings together several parcels of land located in Pauillac. Subsequently, his descendants add the vineyards adjoining the locality Canet: Château Pontet-Canet was born. One hundred years later, the famous classification of 1855 included Château Pontet-Canet among the elite of the Médoc viticulture.
This rise did not escape one of the first Bordeaux merchants of the time, Herman Cruse, who bought the property in 1865. He built new cellars, modernized the facilities and made this wine known throughout the world. The Cruse family managed the property for 110 years, until another merchant, but from Cognac, Guy Tesseron, bought it in 1975. Thus, in more than two hundred years, Château Pontet-Canet knew only three different owners. Today, it is the son of Guy Tesseron, Alfred Tesseron who is at the head of the field.
TERROIR
The Pontet-Canet vineyard, located in the commune of Pauillac, covers 81 hectares (200 acres). It is made up of around one hundred plots and 800,000 vines looking out over the Gironde estuary. At the heart of the Pontet-Canet terroir known as the “plateau”, a gentle broad outcrop of Garonne gravel soil dating from the Günz era that sits on a bedrock of limestone.
VITICULTURE
A wine elaborated according to the precepts of the biodynamic and certified Organic. Use of horses to cultivate the vineyards.
WINEMAKING
Also, the grape harvests are made by homogeneous terroir, which requires cutting the plots in two or three. The manual sorting of the berry is followed by a destemming then a second control is carried out on vibrating table, allowing to preserve only the perfect bays. Then, the maceration is on average 4 weeks until the flow. The breeding is done for third in Dolia concrete which were designed by the Château Pontet-Canet only for the wines of the domain. Since his arrival at the head of the property, Alfred Tesseron has continued to undertake and invest in order to gradually and completely restructure the vineyard, renovated the technical tools and the buildings of the exploitation to produce a wine full of charm and finesse.
TASTING & FOOD PAIRINGS
A dark garnet red shading almost to black, the wine has a precise, complex nose on aromas of black fruit, violet and spice. Succulent and dense on the attack, underpinned by powerful yet creamy tannins, it opens up on the palate to reveal fresh and mineral notes which bring radiant length. Definitely more than a Pauillac, this 2018 is a great Pontet-Canet that may be enjoyed young or in several years’ time.