2011 Pontet Canet
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:05 am
I vividly remember being ever so impressed by this at our pre lunch tasting during our visit to Pontet Canet in May 2015, when we tasted the 11 against the 12, 13 and 14.
On returning to London, I immediately purchased a case of 12 and this is bottle #1 out of the case.
Bright and young looking with red and plummy fruit with hints of new oak. On the palate, ripe fruit, smooth and svelte but with pleasing grippiness, modern and controlled, nice mouthfeel and finishes well. Exudes class it is pristine and clean with no sweaty or bretty aromas as you had for example in vintages from the 1990s like the 1996. Blind you would be hard pressed to tell where this comes from…it does not have much identifiable Pauillac typicity. It has a somewhat aloof and clinical persona. Overall I like this wine, from what has become seen to be a pretty average vintage, which is drinking well and should drink well in the years ahead. Not sure that I love it, more than merely liking it, and I am not sure whether it will improve or merely evolve.
On returning to London, I immediately purchased a case of 12 and this is bottle #1 out of the case.
Bright and young looking with red and plummy fruit with hints of new oak. On the palate, ripe fruit, smooth and svelte but with pleasing grippiness, modern and controlled, nice mouthfeel and finishes well. Exudes class it is pristine and clean with no sweaty or bretty aromas as you had for example in vintages from the 1990s like the 1996. Blind you would be hard pressed to tell where this comes from…it does not have much identifiable Pauillac typicity. It has a somewhat aloof and clinical persona. Overall I like this wine, from what has become seen to be a pretty average vintage, which is drinking well and should drink well in the years ahead. Not sure that I love it, more than merely liking it, and I am not sure whether it will improve or merely evolve.