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2023 Ch Canon 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 6x75cl
06C3CANO6PK _ 2023 - Ch Canon 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Canon
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2028 - 2048
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur

2023 - Ch Canon 1er Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Canon
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2028 - 2048
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur
Case price: £537.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2024, Score: 96-98

    Nicolas Audebert referred to Canon as a Formula 1 car running at speed year on year since 2015, whatever the weather. It certainly has its intermediate tyres on this year, showing composure and ruthless precision in its pursuit of glory. A classic blend of 71% Merlot and 29% Cab Franc, the nose is a densely packed starting grid of blackcurrant compote, red cherry, black plum, and delicate herbaceous notes which bring up the rear. Meanwhile, the limestone plateau has worked its magic on the palate, providing a purity of fruit, fine-grained tannins, and a lively lick of freshness on its long finish. Powerful yet spritely, this is destined for greatness.

  • Neal Martin, April 2024, Score: 94-96

    The 2023 Canon was picked from around 6 September to 6 October at 45hL/ha and matured in 50% new oak. It has a perfumed bouquet with pure black cherries and touches of cassis and violet. The oak is beautifully integrated. Perhaps if I have to quibble, it is not quite as complex as the very best recent vintages, but that's a high bar nowadays. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black cherry fruit laced with iodine, and veins of blue fruit. There is a sorbet-like freshness embroidered throughout this Canon, and it delivers a lovely cracked black pepper note on the finish. Excellent. Again. Drink 2029-2060.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2024, Score: 94-96

    A wine of classicism and reserve, the 2023 Canon is less overtly expressive than most recent vintages, keeping much of its personality in reserve. Nevertheless, I watched it grow considerably over the two weeks I spent in Bordeaux. Bright red-toned fruit, blood orange, mint and spice are some of the many notes that open in the glass. It is a wine that marries generous fruit with classical rigor. I won't be surprised if it shows even better with time. Drink 2033-2063.

  • Wine Advocate, April 2024, Score: 96-98

    Wafting from the glass with aromas of mulberries and raspberries mingled with spices, rose petals, licorice and violets, the 2023 Canon is another brilliant wine from a property whose excellence can almost be taken for granted. Medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, it's seamless and concentrated, its vibrant core of fruit framed by sweet, powdery tannins and girdled by lively acids, concluding with a long, mineral finish.

  • James Suckling, April 2024, Score: 99-100

    This is so elegant and sophisticated already, with a really electric presence and length that goes on and on. It's medium- to full-bodied with an intensity of tannins. It remains weightless and energetic. The pH is 3.41, making this a vivid and lively wine. Currant, orange and stone. Sea salt, too. The limestone soils created a unique wine here in 2023. A blend of 71% merlot and 29% cabernet franc.

  • Matthew Jukes, April 2024, Score: 19.5+

    Canon manages to strike a pose on the palate like no other estate, and my unerring fascination with this Château is that I can never predict the cut, stance or silhouette it will assume, nor what it will do to my senses. In 2023, Canan is super-severe with a fearsome amount of tension and vitality in its core. The fruit is strict, unmoving, impeccably marshalled, and the finish is celestial. Some might find it too bitter or shockingly raw on the finish, but I adore this seismic level of rigidity because this mouthwatering tension is the spectacular battery pack for this wine. It will undoubtedly lead it to greatness, given time. This is not a huge, expansive or upholstered wine, but a slender, chiselled and linear style, and yet I cannot take my eyes off its glistening chassis and minutes-long finish. Every element here is spectacular, particularly the white-knuckle finish, and it delivers all the drama with newfound levels of composure and refinement.

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2024, Score: 96-98

    Nicolas Audebert referred to Canon as a Formula 1 car running at speed year on year since 2015, whatever the weather. It certainly has its intermediate tyres on this year, showing composure and ruthless precision in its pursuit of glory. A classic blend of 71% Merlot and 29% Cab Franc, the nose is a densely packed starting grid of blackcurrant compote, red cherry, black plum, and delicate herbaceous notes which bring up the rear. Meanwhile, the limestone plateau has worked its magic on the palate, providing a purity of fruit, fine-grained tannins, and a lively lick of freshness on its long finish. Powerful yet spritely, this is destined for greatness.

Producer

Château Canon

Chateau Canon is located on St Emilions celebrated limestone plateau, and known for producing some of the appelations age worthy and elegant wines. It has enjoyed a modern renaissance since being acquired in 1996 by Chanel, who also own Chateau Rauzan Segla and Chateau Berliquet. With significant investment in the vineyards and winery, Canon has soared in both quality and demand. Its unique walled Merlot vineyard, worked o...Read more

Chateau Canon is located on St Emilions celebrated limestone plateau, and known for producing some of the appelations age worthy and elegant wines. It has enjoyed a modern renaissance since being acquired in 1996 by Chanel, who also own Chateau Rauzan Segla and Chateau Berliquet. With significant investment in the vineyards and winery, Canon has soared in both quality and demand. Its unique walled Merlot vineyard, worked only by horse and hand-harvested for the Grand Vin, sits at the entrance to Saint-Émilion village, while the rest of its 18 hectares are planted with Merlot and Cabernet Franc on a mix of plateau limestone and clay. Characteristically, Canon demands cellaring throughout its youth, rewarding patience with the sumptuous, silky depth only the finest Saint-Émilions can deliver.Read less

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.

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