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| | | | | ▪ "The 2024 vintage is complex, with significant variations in quality from one producer to the next, the reason is paradoxically simple: ripeness. In the wake of more benign growing seasons, it has been easy to forget that Bordeaux’s is a marginal climate for viticulture. This marginal climate contributes to the region’s strong identity, but it also entails pronounced vintage variation. In 2024, growers that cleared the hurdle of mildew then had to ripen their grapes. Terroir played a role: better-drained, earlier-ripening plots fared best. But the year also rewarded those who took risks in pursuit of fuller maturity—not in quantity, as waiting generally resulted in additional losses to disease, but in quality. While sorting was of critical importance, those who picked too early and sorted rigorously still made mediocre wines. Ripeness, in short, was the critical factor."
William Kelley, Wine advocate
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| ▪ "The 2024 vintage, complicated in its production, will have revealed the heterogeneity that makes the great terroirs of Bordeaux. Thanks to the passion of the winegrowers, their unfailing commitment and current techniques, it has made it possible to obtain wines of a quality incomparable to that of the last rainy vintages. Accessible in their youth, the wines will also make us dream in a few years' time."
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| | | ▪ "The 2024 Pontet-Canet underlines the fact that daring to harvest late paid dividends in this challenging vintage, wafting from the glass with aromas of cassis, black raspberries and plums mingled with accents of rose petals, licorice and exotic spices. Medium to full-bodied, deep and integrated, with mid-palate density that's all too rare this year, it's layered, suave and seamless, concluding with a long, sapid finish. Picking began on September 26 and concluded on October 11, with the heart of the estate's old-vine Cabernet Sauvignon coming in between the seventh and the ninth, well after many châteaux had finished their harvest. Greater reactivity during the season means that Pontet-Canet's vineyards are gaining in vigor, while in the winery, a lighter touch with extraction, systematic climate control and a wholesale refinement of the estate's cooperage choices have brought new harmony and sensuality to this estate's wines. That has combined with a willingness to take risks with harvest dates to deliver what is clearly one of the wines of the vintage. The blend is roughly half Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with the balance Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc."
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William Kelley, Wine advocate
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| ▪ “Vibrant ruby in colour with Violet edging, this is beautifully measured, with a careful release of black fruits. Puts the focus on the floral side of Cabernet Sauvignon, with rose petals, chamomile, fragrant tomato leaf and lilac. There is austerity on the opening, with tight architecture, but as it opens juice begins to flow through the pumice and slate-textured tannins, and this delivers a finessed, slim-style of Pauillac, with plenty of ageing potential and quiet confidence. One of the successes of the vintage. Harvest September 26 through to October 11. 3.8ph, 50% new oak, 35% concrete amphoras. Tasted twice.”
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