For three hundred years of history, the Château Pontet-Canet has been owned by only three families - a rarity in the Médoc area. The new era comes with Guy Tesseron, a cognac merchant from the region, who bought it in 1975. Together with Jean-Michel Comme, manager since 1989, he completely changed the vines and identity of Château Pontet-Canet. They began to grow vines with minimal intervention, by organic and biodynamic methods, and now even use horses to work in the field. Guy Tesseron says he and his team are not winemakers, but farmers. The work is only by hand, and in vinification gravity is used for minimal impact on the grain. After several years of testing, 100 concrete amphorae (dolia) designed by Pontet-Canet were installed in the winery. In order to show respect for the purity of the fruit and the land from which it comes, soil from the vineyards, whose wine matures in them, is included in the making of the concrete amphorae.