2009 Château Pontet-Canet

Community Tasting Notes (382) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  5/12/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  Parker 100 Pointer Lunch, tasted blind: Sunny nose with torrefaction dominating the first whiff, then blue fruit, oak. The palate has lots of structure and enough freshness to support the body. Not overripe but quite extracted and not overly aromatic. I would lay this down till 2030. It could come around. The Chateau Latour 2003 which we tasted next to it was showing more aroma and balance, but it also needed a 12h slow ox plus a 1h decant to get there. So no hurry with this 2009

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  5/11/2024 - sirpat00 wrote: 90 Points

  Part of a small BYO 100 Parker point blind tasting. Extracted and ripe fruit of cherry and blueberries, slightly compote in style, with a deep base of malt. Also leather and liquorish. Full-bodied palate, unfortunately with minor heat notes (admittedly the wine was also slightly too warm) and with elevated temperature this also became more vegetal, showing green bell pepper and asparagus flavors. At this stage, the rest of the aromatics were intense enough so that I would still can count as a feature rather than a fault. Otherwise soft tannin, well-integrated with ripe but still acceptable fruit. Consistent impression from the last bottle earlier this year (from a different cellar).

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  5/5/2024 - ShadowIII Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Second time in a month for the 2009, this is an enormous wine, quite tannic structure but enormous fruit to back it up and keep the wine going for decades, black fruits, blackberry, cassis, almost no secondary notes now, this is a 40-50 year wine. I suspect my son will experience the glory of a fully developed 2009 or 2010. The 2005 is glorious but I think only another 10 years before it will be really at its best.

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  4/29/2024 - DWStyle wrote: flawed

  Bought at auction, both were cooked I believe. Nose was ok, but fruit was sour and cork was totally saturated! I have a third from this purchase, we’ll see about that one…

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  4/27/2024 - phol wrote: 97 Points

  The best Pontet ever made in my humble opinion

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