2005 Château Pontet-Canet

Community Tasting Note

Turtlerider wrote:

Friday, May 10, 2024 - Had with Dave D in a small road house in Edmonton. Wine sat in the car most of the day. It was the first sunny warm day of the year. Totally unexpected. It was probably 80F in the car when I took the wine into the hotel.

I chilled in in my hotel fridge which thankfully was a crappy fridge, but just about cellar temperature.

Definitely worried it would be cooked.

Paid $25 corkage and our young server decanted the wine for us. Tons of sediment. The travel probably shook the bottle a little.

Allowed the wine to breathe for 7 or 8 minutes. Very closed, smooth mouth feel, it needs to breathe.

Ordered steak bites and truffle fries appetizers and sipped water while the wine was allowed to breathe for more minutes. Applies took 15 minutes to come and the wine had opened up a little.

Over two hours the wine opened up and we really enjoyed it. It probably deserved at least a two hour decant, but the conversation and laughs made up for the sub optimal wine conditions.

We had been planning a get together for over 5 years, only to have something always interfere, so this last minute meeting had to do.