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Pontet-Canet|pɔ̃te kane| The name of a château in the Pauillac commune of the Médoc, applied to a claret produced there.
1883H. James in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 458/1 There is a touch of French reason, French completeness, in a glass of Pontet-Canet. 1891in C. Ray Compleat Imbiber (1967) IX. 122 Claret..St. Estèphe..St. Emilion..Pontet Canet. 1912‘Saki’ Chron. Clovis 184 Waiter, a bottle of Pontet Canet. 1920G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-Bk. iv. 64 Pontet Canet..became..a ‘literary’ wine a good many years ago. 1966H. Yoxall Fashion of Life xxv. 240 A Soho restaurant where..they served a pre-war Ch. Pontet-Canet at 2s. 9d. a half-bottle. 1967A. Lichine Encycl. Wines 409/1 Classified a Fifth Growth..in 1855, and traditionally at the head of the Fifths, Pontet-Canet actually sells with the Seconds and Thirds. 1975‘D. Jordan’ Black Account xiii. 65 The House had..lashed out on a Pontet-Canet..and a port which set out to impress the Minister. |