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Auction Ends: 5/16/2019 6:00:00 PM PDT

Lot #56. Pontet-Canet 1994

Description: Consists of 2 Bottles, 0.75L
Score: 91 RP.
"Quality has soared since the 1994 vintage, but prices have not yet caught up with the "new" Pontet-Canet. However, this is not a forward, luscious, rich, sweet, fruity style of Pauillac (such as the charming Pichon-Lalande and Haut-Batailley), but rather, a dense, masculine, massively-styled wine meant for long-term cellaring. One of the finest as well as longest-lived wines of the vintage, this [is an] opaque purple-colored 1994 . . . . A rich, impressive, full-bodied wine, it represents the finest Pontet-Canet produced since the 1961. This full-bodied, purely made wine is crammed with blackcurrant fruit, as well as forbiddingly tannic and backward." Wine Advocate #109, Feb 1997
Provenance: The Talonner Cellar
Notes: Very lightly scuffed, loose capsules, very lightly scuffed, very lightly damp stained, very lightly bin soiled labels.
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Lot Location: Orange County
Estimate: $110

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