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Professional Reviews

• James Suckling

  92

  Fresh and very youthful still with currants, flowers and liquorice character. Full body with fine tannins and a racy, fine finish.

  (07/2013)

• Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

  92

  Tasted blind at Bordeaux Index’s 10-Year On horizontal. This has a very well defined, very fresh bouquet with blackberry, black plum, cedar, graphite and a touch of undergrowth. There is a certain “honesty” to this nose. The palate is medium-bodied with good grip, a little dry on the entry, quite foursquare but so well balanced and displaying such clarity on the finish, with hints of cedar and truffle lingering on the aftertaste. Superb. Tasted March 2011. (NM)

  (05/2011)

• Wine Spectator

  92

  Focused, with a still-juicy edge to the mix of black currant and black cherry compote flavors, which are giving way steadily to mouthwatering tobacco and iron notes and refined singed cedar threads through the finish. Textbook Pauillac.(Blind '01/'03/'05 Bordeaux retrospective.) (JM)

  (12/2017)

• Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar

  90

  Good red-ruby color. Sexy, highly aromatic nose combines black raspberry, licorice, mint, minerals and flowers. Classy, bright Pauillac, with suave dark berry and mineral flavors nicely shaped by firm acidity. Offers early sex appeal but has the structure for a long life in bottle. Finishes with ripe, spreading tannins and excellent grip and length. (ST)

  (06/2004)

• Jancis Robinson

  Very solid, thick Pauillac nose. Lots of matter here. This is the Ghislaine Barthod of the Médoc! Masses of density though not a lot of lift. Fresh finish. Drink 2017-2030. 17/20 points. (JR)

  (03/2012)

Staff Reviews

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  By: Steve Greer

  8/17/2011

  K&L Staff Member

  For those of you wishing for the days when Pontet-Canet was selling for less than $100, this is your wine. I decanted it for two hours, and the wine was still tight but starting to express itself. By the end of the tasting the wine was showing fantastically. The nose is beautiful, with licorice, cassis, mineral and some lingering oak spice. The ripe cassis and blackberry dominate the palate along with graphite and resin. This ripe black fruit and spice continue through onto the long finish. The fleshy mouthfeel is fairly integrated with some tannins evident on the finish.
  

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