Name: 2014 Chateau Pontet-Canet
Brand: Chateau Pontet-Canet
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2014 Chateau Pontet-Canet
Pauillac, France
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  - $ 131 / 750ml
- Red - Savory and Classic
- 4.5 from 42 User Ratings
- 94 / 100 from 20 Critic Reviews
- Organic Certified Organic Biodynamic Certified Biodynamic
- Fifth Growth. Cinquieme Grand Cru Classe in 1855.
  
  Critic tasting note: "2014 marks the first vintage the estate was Demeter certified. Everything here is classic in style starting with the nose and all of its tobacco leaf, cigar box, herbs, smoke, currants, and peppery spices. There is freshness, as well as sweetness to the berries. The fruits are clean, earthy, bright, and chewy, leaving you with a healthy wave of currants, blackberries, salty rocks, and a touch of creaminess in the finish. The wine blends 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2024-2045." - 95/100, Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
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From Pauillac, France
Avg. Price (ex-tax) $ 131 / 750ml
Red Wine – Savory and Classic
Bordeaux Blend Red
Pairs well with Beef and Venison
Organic · Certified Organic · Biodynamic · Certified Biodynamic

Winery

Château Pontet-Canet is a critically lauded wine estate located in the Pauillac appellation of Bordeaux's northern Médoc region. The estate was ranked as a fifth growth in the 1855 Bordeaux Classification although in contempo...

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About the Product

Region or Appellation: Pauillac

Medoc / Bordeaux / France
Classification: 5eme Grand Cru Classé
Drinking Window: 2019 - 2050

Analytical Data

Alcohol ABV: 13.5%
Sweetness: Dry
Blend: 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc & 1% Petit Verdot

Production Attributes

Maturation: Oaked & Amphora Aged
Oak Type: French
Consultant Winemaker: Michel Rolland
Ownership: Alfred and Michel Tesseron
Harvest date: 29 September - 10 October
Closure Type: Cork
Vineyard Notes: 81 ha Certified Organic: Ecocert & Biodynamic: Biodyvin and Demeter Soils: Quaternary Gravel.
Vintage Notes: The 2014 vintage began with a particularly mild and damp winter. Spring brought the kind of conditions we are more used to. The first flowers emerged timidly in late May then, in the space of a warm and dry weekend, filled the air with their subtle and heady scent, with the result that in the end flowering was very even. With our approach we seek to work within nature as a whole, not to control it but to be part of it and live in harmony with it. Veraison, when the grapes start to change colour, began in late July and lasted until mid-August on account of the mixed weather. A true Indian summer set in during September, with hot days and very dry conditions which put a smile on winegrowers’ faces again. There was no need for any special measures either in the vineyard or in the vat-house, where the colour and the tannins were easily extracted. Ultimately, 2014 will be remembered for its untroubled harvest and a crop in perfect health, the preconditions for a successful vintage.

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Harvest Notes: HARVESTS _ By hand in small crates
Winemaking: Manual sorting and destemming. Alcoholic Fermentation with indigenous yeasts, maceration of 4 weeks with soft punching-down, malolactic fermentation in vats.

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Ageing: 50% in new oak barrels, 35% in concrete amphoras, 15% in one wine oak barrels - 16 to 18 months.
Producer Tasting Notes: An intense crimson, the wine has a bewitching nose with clearly defined and precise fruit, underlined by mineral notes which connect the wine to the terroir from which it came. The full and elegant attack leads into a fresh, dense and silky mid-palate on chiselled tannins, followed by an impressively long finish.

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About the Wine

Region

Pauillac

Pauillac is a well-regarded a commune and appellation on Bordeaux's Médoc peninsula. It is home to some of the world's most famous and expensive red wines, wines made predominantly from...

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Style

Red - Savory and Classic

From Barolo to Bordeaux, these wines are steeped in tradition. The style covers a broad spectrum of flavor profiles, but tend to be elegant and structured and can be cellared for a long...

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Grape Variety / Blend

Bordeaux Blend Red

Far from being an officially defined or legal term, it is almost never used for wine-labeling purposes (although it occasionally appears on back labels). Its equivalent in the United States...

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Food Pairing

Beef and Venison

The general rule with all red meat is the leaner the meat, the lighter the wine – this also applies to different cuts of beef or steak, although side dishes and sauces also have to be...

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Suggested Dishes to Pair With This Wine

Beef fore rib Main Course: Western

Ribeye steak on the bone Main Course: With snail Béarnaise; Western

Basque bone-in-sirloin Main Course: Western

Manchego Cheese Course: Spanish

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Critics Scores & Reviews

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2014 vintage

94 / 100

20 scores

95 - 100

90 - 94

85 - 89

80 - 84

75 - 79

0 - 74

When to drink: 2019 to 2050

95 / 100 Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

2014 Vintage Tasted: Jul 2022

2014 marks the first vintage the estate was Demeter certified. Everything here is classic in style starting with the nose and all of its tobacco leaf, cigar box, herbs, smoke, currants, and peppery spices. There is freshness, as well as sweetness to the berries. The fruits are clean, earthy, bright, and chewy, leaving you with a healthy wave of currants, blackberries, salty rocks, and a touch of creaminess in the finish. The wine blends 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2024-2045.

About Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

95 / 100 Falstaff

2014 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2021

Dunkles Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Würzig, ein Hauch von Herbst, Brombeeren, getrocknet Hagebutten, mit Luft schwarze Kirschen, Cassis und Velourleder, zart mit Nougat unterlegt, insgesamt ein etwas scheues Bukett, das nach Dekantieren ruft. Kräftig, engmaschig, mineralisch, feiner Nougat im Kern, reife, tragende Tannine, die noch etwas fordernd sind, mineralisch-salzig im Abgang, wirkt im Moment allerdings etwas verschlossen, wird aber nach einer gewissen Ruhephase sein volles Potenzial zeigen. Hier ist als Geduld gefragt. (2025- 2060)

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20 / 20 Vinum Wine Magazine

2014 Vintage Tasted: Nov 2020

When to drink: 2030 to 2050

Macht aktuell seine Trotzphase durch, doch verrät nach ausgiebiger Belüftung bereits die grosse aromatische Komplexität von Kräutern, Blumen und reifen Beeren, Markenzeichen der jüngeren Pontet-Canet. Der Auftakt ist direkt und frisch, die Entwicklung schlank bei grosser Tiefe, das Ganze wirkt sehr burgundisch dank der besonderen Fruchtigkeit, der tragenden Struktur und Frische. Grosser Wein aus einem verkannten Jahrgang.

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94 / 100 Adrian van Velsen - vvWine.ch

2014 Vintage Tasted: May 2018

Mittleres Rubin, aufgehellter Rand. Expressiv, sehr intensiv duftende Nase, eine Droge, viele Gewürze, florale Noten, Veilchen, Rauch, ausgesprochen komplex. Gradliniger Auftakt, wird dann rasch vollmundig, dicht und zeigt viel Schmelz, wirkt bereits wunderbar zugänglich, man könnte gleich schlucken, strukturiert, mit feinsten Gerbstoffen ausgestattet, im Abgang sehr lang. Sehr gelungen, macht jetzt schon Spass und wird hervorragend reifen. 2018-2040, 19 vvPunkte (94/100)

About Adrian van Velsen - vvWine.ch

96 / 100 Wine Enthusiast

2014 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2017

This is a finely structured wine with dark tannins and intense black fruits. The estate, with its biodynamically grown fruit, has given an impressively pure wine, packed with tight serious tannins and a fine structure of black-plum skins and intense acidity. It is direct, firm and with a huge potential over many years. Drink from 2027.

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96 - 97 / 100 VertdeVin

2014 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2017

The nose is fruity, elegant, fine and more “dense” than on the vintage 2012. It reveals notes of blackberry, sour cherry and slight hints of black berry combined with slight notes of red fruit as well as a hint of toasted oak and slight notes of vanilla. The palate is fruity, fine, soft, delicate, well-balanced, quite gourmande and offers tension, a beautiful elegance, a good fleshy matter as well as an aerial side. On the palate, this wine expresses notes of blackberry, plum and fine notes of fresh red fruits (raspberry, red berries) combined with hints of toasted oak vanilla as well as a discreet hint of chocolate and slight hints of iodized minerality on the finish. Tannins are fine, elegant and supple. The finish is beautifully suave.

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96 / 100 The Wine Independent

2014 Vintage Tasted: Jun 2022

When to drink: 2024 to 2050

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94 / 100 Jean-Marc Quarin

2014 Vintage Tasted: Sep 2021

When to drink: 2026 to 2046

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95 / 100 Robert Parker The Wine Advocate

2014 Vintage Tasted: May 2020

When to drink: 2024 to 2050

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18.5 / 20 La Revue du Vin de France

2014 Vintage Tasted: Jan 2018

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93 / 100 Wine Spectator

2014 Vintage Tasted: Mar 2017

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94 / 100 Jeannie Cho Lee

2014 Vintage Tasted: Mar 2015

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93 / 100 CellarTracker

2014 Vintage

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19 / 20 Bettane et Desseauve

2014 Vintage

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4.5

42 ratings

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Excellent

2014 Vintage Saved: 16-Apr-2024

This Pontet Canet ist worth 1er Grand Cru Classe status Well developed and ripe on point Smooth , velvety, but concentrated with fine tannins, everything matches together: all kind of black fruit, balsamic notes , smoke , light earthy nuances and stunning graphite note

Excellent

2014 Vintage Saved: 10-Jul-2022

2022/7/10

Very Good

2014 Vintage Saved: 13-Oct-2020

balanced and to the side of acidity. Need not much time to air and I think it can age further before its full potential!

Excellent

2014 Vintage Saved: 21-Mar-2020

Excelente.

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All 95 / 100 $ 163 2023 – – 2022 97 / 100 $ 126 2021 94 / 100 $ 108 2020 95 / 100 $ 159 2019 96 / 100 $ 143 2018 97 / 100 $ 162 2017 94 / 100 $ 142 2016 97 / 100 $ 204

2015 95 / 100 $ 156 2014 94 / 100 $ 131 2013 92 / 100 $ 115 2012 93 / 100 $ 125 2011 93 / 100 $ 125 2010 96 / 100 $ 297 2009 96 / 100 $ 323 2008 92 / 100 $ 138 2007 91 / 100 $ 107 2006 93 / 100 $ 140 2005 94 / 100 $ 237 2004 91 / 100 $ 123 2003 93 / 100 $ 167 2002 90 / 100 $ 147 2001 90 / 100 $ 265 2000 92 / 100 $ 207 1999 90 / 100 $ 191 1998 89 / 100 $ 189 1997 86 / 100 – 1996 90 / 100 $ 167 1995 90 / 100 $ 184 1994 88 / 100 $ 275 1993 87 / 100 – 1992 81 / 100 – 1991 83 / 100 – 1990 88 / 100 $ 257 1989 88 / 100 $ 230 1988 87 / 100 $ 216 1987 – – 1986 87 / 100 – 1985 90 / 100 $ 192 1984 87 / 100 – 1983 86 / 100 $ 411 1982 88 / 100 $ 426 1981 87 / 100 – 1980 86 / 100 – 1979 89 / 100 – 1978 90 / 100 – 1977 – – 1976 87 / 100 – 1975 86 / 100 – 1973 87 / 100 – 1971 – – 1970 82 / 100 $ 229 1966 – – 1964 88 / 100 – 1962 88 / 100 – 1961 91 / 100 – 1959 91 / 100 – 1955 – – 1954 – – 1952 89 / 100 – 1950 92 / 100 $ 601 1949 – $ 860 1948 – – 1947 92 / 100 – 1945 90 / 100 – 1943 – – 1938 – – 1937 – – 1934 90 / 100 – 1931 – – 1929 88 / 100 – 1928 89 / 100 – 1924 – – 1923 – – 1922 – – 1920 – – 1914 – – 1904 – – 1897 – –

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Vintage quality: Good

Current condition: Ready to drink, will keep

The 2014 vintage for Bordeaux is often overlooked but has some real gems.

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