Red · Pauillac · France
Château Pontet-Canet Pauillac (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 11,961 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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Tasting profile
A powerful, elegant Pauillac showing dark garnet color with aromas of black fruit, plums, berries, wood smoke, spice, and licorice, lifted by a touch of raspberry liqueur on the palate. Reviewers note present but agreeable tannins, balanced oak, good acidic structure, and earthy-mineral notes with impressive length.
Synthesized from 11,961Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Tasted for the first time on it's release in 2005 and it blew my mind. Powerful, intense and veeeery long on the pallate. I really can't wait to experience it again!!!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Very intense colour. Very intense nose, marked by notes of cherry, blackberry and redcurrant with traces of vanilla, liquorice and cedar. The attack is full to the palate. The tannins of great smoothness reveal a fine elegance. The finish, with no trace of aggressiveness, is marked by a good length.
Château Pontet-Canet Pauillac (Grand Cru Classé) is a red from Pauillac, France, blended from Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $96.00.
The calibrated figure is built from 11,961 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 12,220 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Château Pontet-Canet Pauillac (Grand Cru Classé) lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · France (1,134 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 11,961.
