Pauillac · vintage 2017
Why this vintage
- 96-97 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 6 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2017 vintage in PauillacApril frost cut the crop in half: the plots that were spared give fine, classic wines, and the vintage must be judged estate by estate.
Critic scores
- James Suckling96-97
- Wine Advocate96
- Wine Enthusiast96
- Vinous95
- Decanter95
- Wine Spectator94
- Jeb Dunnuck93
The 2017 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 85/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: April frost cut the crop in half: the plots that were spared give fine, classic wines, and the vintage must be judged estate by estate.
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
La robe est pourpre, brillante et profonde.
Le nez frais révèle un équilibre élégant de notes fruitées, florales et minérales.
La bouche est marquée par une très grande harmonie, une structure tannique d’une grande finesse, associée à une profondeur et une longueur réconfortante.
Un très beau vin.
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Blend of the 2017 vintage
- 64 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 30 % Merlot
- 4 % Cabernet franc
- 2 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2017 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 2017 sheet
- 34 hl/haYield
- 42 yrsVine age
- 250,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Cette année aura vu l’arrivée d’un nouveau cuvier constitué de 32 cuves en béton de 40 hl. Il permet d’accéder à un véritable retour vers l’essentiel, avec la mise en cuve puis la vinification sans machine et sans bruit, uniquement à la main de l’homme.
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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 2017
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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.