TN: 2005 Château Pontet-Canet (France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac)

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  • 2005 Château Pontet-Canet - France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac (12/12/2009)
    red, tannic, viscous, long finish but not giving an inch - CLOSED! Drinkers beware…

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This was unforgiving. Tight as a drum. Drank over 3 days.

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+1

Beware.

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No offense, but this wine should not be revisited for at least 20 years. And I would not expect it to be drinking at peak for 30.

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I agree - I felt it was closed up, but some at TexFest liked it. It’s nothing like it was a year ago.

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I have 2 cases of this wine. I hope that I get a chance to enjoy them. I suspect 2022-25 as a starting ground.
I opened an unclassified 05 St Estephe this weekend that needed a blender to show the slightest enjoyment. These puppies will age like snails in a race to die.

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Shit, you’ll be dead be then. [wink.gif]

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Didn’t you try any soon after receiving them? With a few hours of decanting, this wine was epic.

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You are the old geezer that goes to three day wine ho expos without sleep, not me champ . flirtysmile neener
I never open wines like PC at infancy. They don’t bring me joy at that age.

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Funny, Jack – I had you pegged for liking 'em young…

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Either that or it peaked as a barrel sample. [stirthepothal.gif]

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I’m contemplating removing mine from my racking and putting them into the banished cases along with other 05s and some 00s.

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Will, I like my chicks young and my wine aged.
Thus tonight I am drinking an 86 Dunn HM tonight at dinner with my five year old kid. pileon

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Jack –

If you have time and inclination, I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the Dunn '86. I have a couple of those that I’ve been waiting for a good opportunity to open.

– Matt

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You mean the annointed one could have made a bad call??? pepsi

I am 53 and bought zero classified 05 Bore-dough. In fact I don’t see the need to ever buy it again deadhorse

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Very nice wine Matt. It has the typical Dunn profile of reasonably thick cassis, cedar and earth. The wine might have slipped ever so slightly beyond it’s best days. I have one more that I will soon finish. The 85 on the other hand has not budged from its dormancy.

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Thanks, Jack. I’ll try not to wait too much longer!

– Matt