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2010 Château Pontet-Canet, Pauillac, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (65%),Merlot (30%),Cabernet Franc (4%),Petit Verdot (1%)
Ready - at best
Product: 20108007342
2010 Château Pontet-Canet, Pauillac, Bordeaux

Description

65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot.

A few years ago proprietor Alfred Tesseron gave us a blind tasting of four Pauillac wines from the 1996 vintage. They turned out to be Mouton, Latour, Lafite and Pontet-Canet, and the last-named lost virtually nothing by comparison with its lofty peers. We reckon he could repeat the exercise this year with the same results. This is a monumental wine, seamlessly brilliant on the palate, exuding class on the bouquet. Everything is in such balance and harmony that we feel we should not bother to find the vocabulary to describe it, so we'll just say it’s very special.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2010
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (65%),Merlot (30%),Cabernet Franc (4%),Petit Verdot (1%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Pontet-Canet

About this wine

Cabernet Sauvignon

The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
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Chateau Pontet-Canet

Château Pontet-Canet is a large Pauillac estate that can trace its origins back to 1725, when Jean-François Pontet gave his name to the estate he had acquired. The wine was not château-bottled until 1972 and in 1975 the property was sold to Guy Tesseron, of the Tesseron family, one of the finest exponents of luxury, very old, aged Cognacs (Cognac Tesseron). The Tesserons also own Château Lafon-Rochet in St-Estephe. Today, Château Pontet-Canet is owned and run by Alfred and Michel Tesseron.
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