Canon is a Premier Grand Cru Classé on Saint-Émilion’s clay-limestone plateau, owned by the Wertheimer family of Chanel since 1996. It has been one of the Right Bank’s big risers over the past decade. The 2019 is Merlot-led with Cabernet Franc, from a hot, dry summer and an ideal autumn, and it was aged 18 months in French oak. Raspberry, red plum and blueberry come with raw cocoa, dark chocolate, rose petal and chalk. It is full and seamless, with velvety tannins and a long, perfumed finish. Critics call it one of the most refined and elegant wines of the vintage. It’s drinking well with a decant now and has decades ahead of it.
97 Points
"The 2019 Canon has turned out brilliantly in bottle, wafting from the glass with complex aromas of raspberries and red plums mingled with notions of raw cocoa, dark chocolate, pencil shavings and rose petals. Medium to full-bodied, seamless and multidimensional, it's one of the most refined, elegant right bank wines of the vintage, with a deep core of fruit, beautifully refined tannins, lively acids and a long, perfumed finish. This is a superb achievement for Nicolas Audebert and his team."
Canon is a Premier Grand Cru Classé on Saint-Émilion’s clay-limestone plateau, owned by the Wertheimer family of Chanel since 1996. It has been one of the Right Bank’s big risers over the past decade. The 2019 is Merlot-led with Cabernet Franc, from a hot, dry summer and an ideal autumn, and it was aged 18 months in French oak. Raspberry, red plum and blueberry come with raw cocoa, dark chocolate, rose petal and chalk. It is full and seamless, with velvety tannins and a long, perfumed finish. Critics call it one of the most refined and elegant wines of the vintage. It’s drinking well with a decant now and has decades ahead of it.
97 Points
"The 2019 Canon has turned out brilliantly in bottle, wafting from the glass with complex aromas of raspberries and red plums mingled with notions of raw cocoa, dark chocolate, pencil shavings and rose petals. Medium to full-bodied, seamless and multidimensional, it's one of the most refined, elegant right bank wines of the vintage, with a deep core of fruit, beautifully refined tannins, lively acids and a long, perfumed finish. This is a superb achievement for Nicolas Audebert and his team."