Grands crus atlas
Area under vine at the estate, from its technical sheet — it does not change from one vintage to the next. Each vintage’s blend, by contrast, departs from it: that figures on its own page. The estate does not publish the share of each grape variety: they are listed without proportions.
Relief exaggerated ×10 · elevation 0 to 29 m · average slope 2.2°
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Footprint, parcels and their split are measured on the Compagnie Médocaine’s own parcel survey; elevation, slope and aspect on the Mapbox terrain-rgb digital terrain model, derived from IGN’s RGE ALTI over France. Compare with the blend on the technical sheet, at the top of the page: the two answer different questions.
The wines of Pontet-Canet have always belonged to the legend of the Médoc. The people of Pontet-Canet continue without respite the work begun more than three centuries ago, bringing to it the most advanced techniques with an unfailing concern to improve the quality of the wine, while respecting and expressing the terroir in its purest form.
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.
Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2026 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.
| Vintage | Best score | Vintage character | Technical sheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | — | fiche · PDF | |
| 2025 | 98-100 Wine Advocate | A dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched. | fiche · PDF |
| 2024 | 97 Decanter | A rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines. | fiche · PDF |
| 2023 | 98 James Suckling | July mildew followed by a hot September demanded strict selection: fleshy, aromatic wines, more approachable than 2022. | — |
| 2022 | 100 Jeb Dunnuck | Three heatwaves and extreme drought gave, against all odds, wines of exceptional concentration without harshness — the great sun-drenched year. | fiche · PDF |
| 2020 | 98 James Suckling | An early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness. | fiche · PDF |
| 2019 | 99 James Suckling | A hot end of summer after a rainy spring gave wines that hold ripeness and freshness together; the cabernets shine here. | fiche · PDF |
| 2018 | 98 Wine Advocate | After a spring marked by mildew, the heat concentrated a small crop: rich, ripe wines with great depth of material. | fiche · PDF |
| 2017 | 96-97 James Suckling | 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. | fiche · PDF |
| 2012 | 97 Wine Enthusiast | A late cycle closing with rain gave an uneven vintage: the cabernets hold up, the merlots remain taut. | fiche · PDF |
| 2011 | 97 Wine Enthusiast | A scorching spring followed by a wet August turned the seasons upside down: classic wines, shorter but true to type. | fiche · PDF |
| 2010 | — | A dry summer and cool nights concentrated small berries: a benchmark vintage, with dense tannins and a thirty-year aging potential. | fiche · PDF |
| 2009 | — | A sun-drenched season from start to finish gave opulent, fleshy wines, immediately appealing yet built for the cellar. | fiche · PDF |
| 2008 | 96 Wine Advocate | A bright late season saved a cool summer: wines of unexpected freshness and aromatic precision. | fiche · PDF |
| 2007 | — | A cool, wet summer demanded strict selection: light, delicious wines, to be drunk young. | fiche · PDF |
| 2006 | — | Rain at véraison followed by a dry September gave classic, balanced wines with fine freshness, without the density of 2005. | fiche · PDF |
| 2005 | — | Drought without any halt in ripening, together with cool nights, gave a legendary vintage: concentrated, with firm tannins and very long aging potential. | fiche · PDF |
| 2004 | — | High yields and a dry September gave a classic, unexaggerated vintage, straightforward, now at its peak. | fiche · PDF |
| 2003 | — | The historic heatwave halted ripening in young vines: very ripe, low-acid wines, at their best in Saint-Estèphe, where the clays held on to freshness. | fiche · PDF |
“Best score”: the highest score recorded for this wine, with its source. “Character”: the overall reading of the year across the appellation, which an estate may depart from.
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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.
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