Decanter award for 2004 Pontet Canet

I have blogged about this wine and how it changed over the course of a number of PWC tastings. Robert Parker awarded this wine 90 points, which was how it got compared with Carruades de Lafite 1998 and an Ozzie Cabernet Sauvignon, which at the time trumped them both. There is however another professional assessment of the wine, which actually put it on a par with Latour and Mouton, and that was a blind tasting of 2004 Cru Classe wines published in the November 2007 issue of Decanter. It got awarded the 5-starred Decanter award - the list was in this order: Lafon-Rochet, Clerc-Milon, Latour, Mouton-Rothschild, Pontet-Carnet, Lagrange and Kirwan. Wines which won the Decanter award were not given scores (out of 20); I wonder if the list was in descending order of individual marks (which was how the rest of the list was organized). That would make Mouton and Pontet neighbours in quality, just as they are neighbouring properties. Perhaps Tesseron's assessment of what his property can achieve is not too far off. Well, the 2009 vintage was awarded the coveted RP100!