Pauillac · vintage 2008
Château Pontet-Canet 2008
Ageing potential20 ans et +
Why this vintage
- 96/100 from Wine Advocateand 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2008 vintage in PauillacA bright late season saved a cool summer: wines of unexpected freshness and aromatic precision.
- Ageing potential20 ans et +
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Critic scores
- Wine Advocate96
- Jeb Dunnuck96
- Wine Enthusiast95
- Vinous92
The 2008 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 91/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A bright late season saved a cool summer: wines of unexpected freshness and aromatic precision.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pauillac. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
Couleur très intense. Le nez, à la fois fin et complexe est dominé par une expression de fruit d’une belle pureté. En bouche, la trame tannique d’une grande amplitude est caractérisée par une finesse et une précision peu communes. Le caractère vibrant du vin lui donne une dimension émotionnelle. C'est un vin dans lequel le terroir de Pontet-Canet est totalement sublimé !
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Blend of the 2008 vintage
- 65 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 30 % Merlot
- 4 % Cabernet franc
- 1 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2008 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2008 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 42 yrsVine age
- 250,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Les vinifications durent en moyenne plus de quatre semaines, mais varient en fonction du cépage, de la parcelle d’origine et de l’âge des vignes.
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Ageing
Le vin est ensuite directement écoulé en barriques, pour un élevage qui dure seize à vingt mois selon le millésime. Le nombre de barriques neuves n’excèdent pas les deux tiers.
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Terroir
The lands of Château Pontet-Canet lie at the heart of the Pauillac appellation, south of the neighbouring vineyards of Mouton Rothschild and d'Armailhac. Here it is the poverty of the soil that serves as the matrix for the greatest crus. The soil appears to be composed of nothing but gravel and sand, and it is hard to imagine that the vine can grow there. The 80 hectares of the Pontet-Canet vineyard are dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon, the well-known signature of the great wines of Pauillac. The terroir of Pontet-Canet consists of a rise of Garonne gravels over a limestone bedrock. It is a lean, warm and free-draining soil.
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Texts and documents 2008
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.