Château Pontet-Canet

Pauillac

2014

Blend

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

Wine designation

Château Pontet-Canet, Red, 2014
Category: Pauillac, 5ème Grand Cru Classé, Bordeaux

Food pairing

Pair with some of Bordeaux’s finest dishes: an entrecôte with a red wine and shallot sauce to a roasted duck with a Porto reduction.

Data sheet

Château Pontet-Canet

Pauillac

2014

Tasting notes

A beautiful springtime with a wonderfully even flowering period, with the summer temperatures lasting well into the month of September for a particularly successful harvest. With a nose giving black cherry, cassis, sweet boysenberry pie with a touch of minerality. On the palate, structured tannins with good overall complexity. Energy and harmony.

Vineyard

Vineyard size: 81 hectares

Soil composition: Predominantly gravel with clay-limestone subsoil.

Winemaking

Fermentation container: Hand-picked.

Maceration technique: Vinification in concrete vats, after 2012, 40% in Dolia (concrete amphorae).

Aging: Oak Barrels.

16-18 months with 50% in new oak barrels.

Type of oak: French

Bottles produced: 300 000

Winemaker: Jean-Michel Comme

Consulting œnologist: Michel Rolland

Heritage in the vineyard

Domaine

Jean-François de Pontet, in the early 18th century, would bring together plots of land in the Pauillac area. His descendants add the vineyard to create the estate. Later classified as a 5ème Cru Classé. Later purchased by Herman Cruse in 1865. In 1975, Guy Tesseron would purchase the estate, currently managed by Alfred Tesseron along with Justine Tesseron.

Green in the vineyard

Environmental practices

Converting initially 14 hectares to use biodynamic farming practices in 2004, followed shortly by the entire estate. In 2014, the estate became organic and biodynamic, going further, by taking care to introduce practices that respect the vine’s natural balance. Beginning in 2008, with the goal to limit soil compaction caused by heavy machinery, the estate added a team of 10 Percherons to work half the vineyard and used to spray infusions and plant preparations.