1952 Pontet-Canet

1952 Château Pontet-Canet;

Cruse bottling, very top shoulder fill, garnet with brick/ orange rim. Leather, coffee, tea, chocolate, earthy, cherries and red berries. Good acidity, ripe tannins, some metallic touches, bark and cherry tree wood (think when you were young and climbing in the cherry trees) and figs. More expressive on the nose than on the palate. 89

Broadbent has no notes on this one, but rates 1952 as a **-**** star vintage. The growing season was very satisfactory up until September which was cold and unsettled. The harvest was fairly early and I suspect the the unripeness of some of the crop is responsible for its variability. Best in Graves and on the Right Bank, harder, more unyielding in the Médoc.