Château Pontet-Canet 2016 – Pauillac, Cru Classé

The nose is fruity, elegant and offers a fine richness as well as a fine concentration. It reveals notes of fleshy blackberry and fleshy wild strawberry associated with fine touches of cassis, small crushed blue berries, liquorice, zan as well as discreet hints of spices and nutmeg. The palate is fruity, juicy, beautifully well-balanced, elegant, precise and offers a beautiful definition, dynamism, a beautiful fullness, a fine tension, a very beautiful finesse of the grain, a beautiful purity of the fruit, a good structure, suavity, a fine tension, gourmandize, a fine unctuosity, richness (but all in elegance/balance) as well as a fine fat. On the palate this wine expresses notes of cherry, blackberry, fleshy raspberry and more slightly strawberry associated with small touches of cassis, blackberry, liquorice, chocolate as well as discreet hints of coffee and cardamom (on the finish). Tannins are elegant and structuring. Good persistence. A very beautiful wine!