2022 Chateau Pontet Canet 3.0 LThere are estates in Bordeaux that make great wine, and then there are the rare ones that feel like theyre altering the very trajectory of what great Bordeaux means. Pontet Canet has spent the last two decades in that second categorya quiet revolution unfolding in Pauillac, driven by horses, compost teas, cover crops, and a kind of biodynamic faith that once drew skepticism but now draws envy. And the 2022 is a landmark. A wine forged in a heat struck

parcel by parcel

Nearly giving up hope

Ladoix was virtually unheard of

The Friulian winemaker once found himself accosted by well-dressed men with bulging briefcases and a lawsuit from the American Gallo brothers — one in every three bottles of wine consumed in America bearing their name

This wine is off-the-charts great

and a flash of white grapefruit—across the palate with a saline undercurrent that evokes crushed river rock

On a Venn diagram

the records division mentions Jean Boulay as an owner of vineyards

Critical acclaim for Alion:

As the vintages have accumulated

And I happen to very much agree with them

mushroom and forest floor emerging as it spends time in the glass