2010 Ch Canon 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 12x75cl
- Colour Red
- Producer Château Canon
- Region St Emilion
- Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc
- Drinking 2019 - 2035
- Case size 12x75cl
- Available
2010 - Ch Canon 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 12x75cl
- Colour Red
- Producer Château Canon
- Region St Emilion
- Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc
- Drinking 2019 - 2035
- Case size 12x75cl
- Available
No further quantities available
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Goedhuis, April 2011, Score: 93-95
Enticingly strong spiced fruit aromas. In the mouth, this wine exudes class, with a lovely balanced weight of fruit and strong rounded tannins. A very fresh and complete wine, offering a fabulous contrast to many of the super extracted styled that seem to be on the increase within St Emilion. DR
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Goedhuis, April 2011, Score: 93-95
Enticingly strong spiced fruit aromas. In the mouth, this wine exudes class, with a lovely balanced weight of fruit and strong rounded tannins. A very fresh and complete wine, offering a fabulous contrast to many of the super extracted styled that seem to be on the increase within St Emilion. DR
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Neal Martin, March 2017, Score: 93
Tasted at the Château Canon vertical, the 2010 Canon has developed a certain opulence in the nose since I last tasted it. A blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc, there is a surfeit of blackberry and blueberry fruit, a background scents of warm gravel and pressed flowers that emerge with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with a succulent core of sweet mulberry and dark plum fruit, surprisingly saline in the mouth, very well balanced with the Cabernet Franc stealing the steering wheel from the Merlot on the finish that fans out beautifully. As I mentioned in my previous note, I feel that this will shut down for several years, but it will ultimately deliver an impressive Château Canon, albeit one with a rockin' 15% alcohol. Tasted October 2015. 2020-2045
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Robert Parker, Feb 2013, Score: 91+
An elegant, attractive blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc cropped at 35 hectoliters per hectare, this wine tips the scales at 15% natural alcohol which, given the more elegant style sought at Canon, tells readers a lot about how powerful the 2010 vintage was across all the appellations of Bordeaux. Exhibiting plenty of raspberry, blueberry and black cherry fruit as well as some crushed rock/chalky minerality and a floral note, this very impressive Canon is backward, structured and precise. Give it 7-8 years of bottle age and drink it over the following three decades. 2020-2050
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Robert Parker, May 2011, Score: 92-94+
Along with the brilliant 2009, the 2010 Canon appears to be the finest wine made at this estate since the 1982. Aficionados of this 50-acre vineyard situated on the top of the St.-Emilion plateau will have fun comparing the 2009 and 2010 over the next 30 years. Composed of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc that hit 15% natural alcohol (a record here), the 2010 offers up perfumed notes of spring flowers, crushed chalk, black currants, black cherries, earth, forest floor and oak. Full-bodied as well as elegant and precise, this brilliant effort needs 5-8 years of cellaring and should drink well for three decades or more. Drink: 2016 - 2046
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James Suckling, April 2011, Score: 95-96
Blackberries and hints of spices and fresh herbs. This is so tasty. It has wonderful round and juicy tannins, with lots of fruit yet subtle and spicy, with chocolate and light coffee. So yummy. Hard not to drink it. This is a classic style of Canon, such as 1955 or 1959. Better than 2009.
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Decanter, April 2011, Score: 18.5
I loved the '09 and this is as good if not better. Poised and elegant with great purity of fruit. Dense but long and linear. Beautiful texture and tannins. Drink 2018-2040.
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Jancis Robinson, April 2011, Score: 16
Slightly smudgy on the nose. Thick and sweet and angular on the palate. Job done, but without enormous grace, and surely with quite a bit of oak? Drink 2018-2028
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Wine Spectator, April 2011, Score: 91-94
Ripe, with dark blackberry and linzer torte fruit laced nicely with the racy, mouthwatering acidity and strong graphite spine of the vintage. Long, driven and very solid, with serious, charcoal-tinged grip. -J.M.
Region
St Emilion
South of Pomerol lies the medieval, perched village of St Emilion. Surrounding St Emilion are vines that produce round, rich and often hedonistic wines. Despite a myriad of soil types, two main ones dominate - the gravelly, limestone slopes that delve down to the valley from the plateau and the valley itself which is comprised of limestone, gravel, clay and sand. Despite St Emilion's popularity today, it was not until the 1980s to early 1990s that attention was brought to this region. Robert Parker, the famous wine critic, began reviewing their Merlot-dominated wines and giving them hefty scores. The rest is history as they say. Similar to the Médoc, there is a classification system in place which dates from 1955 and outlines several levels of quality. These include its regional appellation of St Emilion, St Emilion Grand Cru, St Emilion Grand Cru Classé and St Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé, which is further divided into "A" (Ausone and Cheval Blanc) and "B" (including Angélus, Canon, Figeac and a handful of others). To ensure better accuracy, the classification is redone every 10 years enabling certain châteaux to be upgraded or downgraded depending on on the quality of their more recent vintages.
