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Producer: Château Pontet Canet
Vintage: 2020
Country: France
Region: Pauillac
Categorie: red wine
Bottle size: 150 cl.
Ripeness: 2030 - 2050
Taste: trocken
Winestyle: kräftig & würzig
Food recommendation: reife Hartkäse, Lammgerichte, Hirschentrecôte , Geschmorte Kalbsbacken, T-Bone Steak vom Grill
Alcohol content: 13 %
The red wines have a deep red color and an incredible fruit taste, which is carried by ripe tannins. Currants and blackberries appear in the mouth before cedar wood touches the palate.
The vinification takes place with natural yeast cultures in the concrete tank and large wooden barrel. The expansion takes place for 16 months in some new French barriques, barriques 1er filling and Dolia. (Dolia are big clay jugs). After this time, the second wine Hauts de Pontet-Canet is bottled. For the first wine Pontet Canet the wine goes for another 12 months in barriques 1er filling.
Jean-François de Pontet had made his name at the court of Versailles after he had received the position of Grand Ecuyer of Louis XV. After his return to Guyenne, he became governor of Médoc. In 1705, he acquired a few hectares of land north of the village of Pauillac, which he converted into a vineyard. A few years later, he adds several plots to a place called Canet. As was usual then, he added his name to give his property a recognizable identity. A century later, the Château Pontet-Canet flourished and became one of the few to join the 1855 classification. In 1865, the estate changed owners for the first time and became the property of a wine merchant named Herman Cruse. The Cruse family kept the estate for 110 years until it was acquired in 1975 by Guy Tesseron, a cognac trader. Over the course of three centuries, Château Pontet-Canet knew only three owners, three families .... A rarity in the Médoc.
The soul of Pontet-Canet lies on the plateau, an outcrop of Garonne gravel over a limestone rock. The barren and well drained soil meets all the requirements of the sophisticated Cabernet Sauvignon grape, the trademark of the great Pauillac wines. Cabernet Franc, planted in the middle of the outcrop, brings noble tannins and sophistication. Some Merlot vines are planted on gravelly clay soil surrounding the plateau.
