Chateau Pontet Canet Pauillac 2025 750ml is one of the most highly acclaimed wines of the 2025 Bordeaux vintage, offered as an En Primeur pre-order with arrival expected in Q3 2028. This biodynamic Pauillac showcases remarkable precision, elegance, and depth, with layers of cassis, plum, graphite, floral notes, and refined smoky nuances framed by velvety tannins and exceptional freshness. Powerful yet beautifully polished, it is a collectible wine with outstanding ageing potential and a superb expression of modern Pontet-Canet.

The Wine Advocate | RP 98-100
Published: Apr 30, 2026

A blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot that weighs in at 13.3% alcohol, the 2025 Pontet-Canet is one of the finest wines this estate has produced. Wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet cassis, wild berries and plums mingled with notions of violet and burning embers, it's full-bodied, ample and velvety, with a degree of structural polish and sensuality that is rare in the Médoc, ripe acids and a long, penetrating finish. Over the last handful of years, technical director Mathieu Bessonnet and his team have revitalized Pontet-Canet's vineyards with well-timed soil work and precise phytosanitary treatments; and since 2023, the careful use of "pieds de cuve" in the winery, along with early blending, more refined barrel choices and cooler temperatures in the chai—plus more precise bottling practices—have conspired to take this estate to new heights of quality and consistency. In 2025, the team formed lower-than-usual "ponts" (whereby the canopies of adjacent vines are braided together in an arch) to retain denser foliage to protect the fruiting zone from sunshine, and they waited to pick late in pursuit of full maturity in Cabernet Sauvignon, finishing on September 23. The result is one of the wines of the vintage.

James Suckling | JS 98
Published: Apr 27, 2026

A precise and beautiful wine with total integration of the fruit and polished tannins that give a caressing and seductive mouthfeel. It’s medium-bodied with lovely fruit, a gentle nature and an overall softness and gorgeousness. Yet structured.

Decanter | D 97
Published: Apr 7, 2026
Drink: 2034-2055

Deep purple plum colour in the glass with earthy, blackcurrant fruit aromas. Crystalline and focussed, this is seamless and quite straight - tannins are fine but give a solid structure and edge to the wine with brilliant purity to the fruit. Excellent freshness but it’s more than just cool and pure, there’s perfect tension and weight, clarity and finesse with detail - sinewy, juicy, fresh, fragrant, cool and mouthwatering. Delicate and graceful with the power from ample tannins building afterwards full of liquorice, sticky cola, black chocolate, a dusting of espresso and tobacco. A very transparent expression of the vintage - not overly demonstrative but structured and fresh with a great promise of long ageing. 3.7pH. Harvest 2-15 September with indigenous yeasts and no sulphur usage for fermentations and a long maceration to soften the tannis. 1% of Petit Verdot completes the blend. Ageing 50% new oak, 35% amphoras and 15% one wine barrels. 

Jancis Robinson | JR 17
Published: Apr 14, 2026
Drink: 2032-2050

56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot. Certified organic and biodynamic (Demeter, Biodyvin). Cask sample.
Bright purple hue. Lots of energy. Aromatically lively and fresh with dark-fruit, graphite and floral notes. Some sweetness on attack then smooth, ripe and juicy with plenty of drive, the tannic structure sound. (JL)

Pontet-canet.com

After quite a mild winter, the first leaves appeared on the vines at the beginning of April. Despite a very unusual cold snap in May, which slowed cane growth for some days, flowering ensued very quickly and uniformly. Then summer settled in and the first grapes began changing colour on July 23rd. A few much-awaited showers quickened the pace of this initial colour change and by the end of July, in just a few days, ripening was well underway. Harvest time approached in very promising conditions with the fruit presenting lovely crispness.
On September 23rd in brilliant sunshine, the Merlot grapes were picked followed by the Cabernet Franc. In the very last days of September the “real” Medoc harvest began with the first crates of the princely Cabernet Sauvignon being picked.
On October 10th at midday, when the last Petit Verdot had been brought in, the secateurs were put away and tranquillity returned to the vines.

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