Château PONTET-CANET 2022

Description

Yves Beck 97-98 points www.yvesbeck.wine
Beaucoup de finesse dans le bouquet de Pontet-Canet qui se révèle de manière progressive, précise. Les marqueurs de Pauillac et de Pontet-Canet sont bien là, complétés par des nuances fruitées et chocolatées. C’est néanmoins la fraîcheur qui pose les jalons, car elle est exceptionnelle, rien qu’au niveau olfactif. Le vin est compact, élégant et crémeux. A l’image du bouquet il se révèle pas à pas. Pontet Canet 2022 est fin, élégant, mais il ne manque pas de revendiquer un caractère affirmé, précis, juteux et salivant. La finale souligne à quel point le vin est en mesure de tenir la comparaison avec les plus grands crus de Pauillac. Que de tension, de clarté, de précision. Un vin brillant !  2028-2047

Jeb Dunnuck 97-99+ points www.jebdunnuck.com
The 2022 Château Pontet-Canet is brilliant and should easily be up with the crème de la crème from the Médoc. Based on 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, and 4% each of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, it was vinified mostly in concrete (there’s a small part in wood), and the aging is in 50% new French oak, 35% in amphora, and the rest in once-used barrels. It has an incredibly pure bouquet of cassis, graphite, lead pencil, and scorched earth. This carries to a full-bodied Pauillac with a deep, layered mid-palate, building tannins, and a great finish. It has the purity, richness, and structure that makes this vintage so compelling and is going to be drinkable with just 4-6 years of bottle age but have an incredibly long life.

Jean-Marc Quarin 95 points www.quarin.com
Couleur sombre, intense et belle. Nez moyennement aromatique, au fruité frais. Moelleux à l’attaque, juteux en milieu de bouche, très savoureux, le vin caresse le palais, charnu, charmant, parfumé, avec du goût en finale. Très belle longueur sans angle tannique. Assemblage : 60 % cabernet sauvignon, 32 % merlot, 4 % cabernet franc, 4 % petit verdot. Degré d’alcool : 13°3. Production : 100 % de la récolte. Rendement : 32 hl/ha.

Antonio Galloni 95-97 www.vinous.com
The 2022 Pontet-Canet is a surprising wine. Usually much more opulent, especially in warm, dry years, the 2022 comes across as restrained and understated. It is a wine of linear intensity rather than size, marked by notable freshness and a feeling of tension and precision I don’t recall seeing in the past. Clean mineral notes extend the finish effortlessly. I very much admire the precision and vibrancy here. Unforgettable.

Georgina Hindle 95 points  www.decanter.com (at Bordeaux, 01 Apr 2022)
Vibrant, vivid purple colour in the glass, rich and deep. Smells bright, super fresh and expressive on the nose with freshly-picked blackcurrants and perfumed purple flowers – the Petit Verdot, really standing out. Clean and clear, creamy, powdery and softly chewy on the palate. The texture is lovely, you can tell they haven’t over extracted but there’s still clear concentration with a gentle succulence provided by the acidity, cool freshness and appealing mineral touches alongside liquorice, clove, dried herbs and bitter chocolate. Enjoyable and well defined if still a little compact. 3.85pH. 4% Cabernet Franc completes the blend. 15% press wine used. Harvest 8 – 28 September, the earliest and longest ever. 20% lower yields than in 2021. The technical team used a clay sunscreen on the grapes to avoid burning. Tasted twice.

Neal Martin 94-96 www.vinous.com
The 2022 Pontet Canet has a pure nose with perfumed blackberry and cassis fruit. It takes time to cohere, evolving light pencil lead notes after 8-10 minutes. The palate has a lovely chalky texture on the entry, and a silver bead of acidity. Perhaps, more complexity than the aromatics suggest at the moment. Fine balance, moderate grip, the mineralité coming toward the final third, it fans out with gusto. There is quite a long residual peppery note on the aftertaste that you can feel after 30 seconds. I have not pulled any punches in recent vintages, when stylistically, I felt that it has veered too far away from Pauillac, for my personal taste. But closely examining this 2022, today, it seems safely within the appellation.