Château Pontet-Canet Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2019
Château Pontet-Canet
Pontet-Canet is the biodynamic outlier of Pauillac — a classified growth that farms with horses and concrete eggs. The 2019 is arguably their finest recent vintage, marrying the power expected of Pauillac with an energy and lift that comes from healthy, biodynamically farmed soils. This is a wine that reveals the cask's confession slowly, as new French oak integrates into fruit of extraordinary purity.
Kit Aromas
Nose
Concentrated blackcurrant and ripe cherry lead, with cedar, graphite, and a hint of violet. As it opens, notes of mint and toasted oak emerge, framing the dark fruit core.
Palate
Powerful but sculpted. Blackcurrant, cherry, and dark berry are layered with cedar and fine-grained tannins. There is a remarkable freshness for a wine this concentrated, with a subtle floral lift that prevents heaviness.
Finish
Long, precise, and mineral-driven. Cedar and blackcurrant persist, with a faint violet echo. The tannins are firm but ripe, promising excellent evolution over the next two decades.
- Varietal
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Blend
- 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot
- Vineyards
- 81 hectares in Pauillac, biodynamically farmed, gravel and clay-limestone soils
- Alcohol
- 14%
- Organic / Biodynamic
- No
Food Pairing
The lamb's rosemary and thyme crust echoes the wine's herbal and cedar notes, while the richness of the meat matches Pauillac's structure. Serve with a red currant jus to bridge the blackcurrant fruit.
Under the Tesseron family's stewardship since 1975, Château Pontet-Canet became one of Bordeaux's rare biodynamically certified classified growths, with vineyards worked by horse and wines fermented in concrete amphoras alongside traditional oak.
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